Back To 1995

  Chapter 941 Old friend

Facing George Bell and several Excite executives, Irene said oppressively that she will return to ICQ with Song Yang tomorrow, and she wants to clean up Google's affairs, so she doesn't have so much time to talk to George Bell. Bell is playing tricks on something.

Google is likely to become a giant, but ICQ is already a giant, and returning to ICQ Irene still has a lot of things to deal with. Compared with ICQ, Google may take five, eight, or even longer to gradually Become a tech giant, but Irene doesn't want to wait any longer.

  Of course, before the official announcement to leave Google, Irene has to deal with Google's troubles, and she will still be a member of Google's board of directors and a consultant in the future, but she will not interfere too much in Google's internal affairs.

Hearing that Google was only willing to spend 300 million US dollars to eat up the entire Excite company, George Bell couldn't help but twitched, and clenched his fist unconsciously, feeling that this was purely against Excite. ridicule!

   You must know that Excite spent a full $7.6 billion to acquire AtHomeGorp, and now the acquisition price Google offers you is less than 5% of Excite’s big deal.

Looking at George Bell, Irene is not like Larry Page and the others, she said mercilessly, "Whether or not to acquire Excite company does not mean that much to Google. The acquisition price given by Google is already what Silicon Valley can afford." The highest price given.

   If President George Bell has any dissatisfaction with the purchase price, he can leave now! "

  Irene pushed the documents in her hand aside, looked at George Bell leisurely, and told him clearly that this price is the price, whether she likes to sell it or not, and Google doesn't care about the junk like Excite.

George Bell's face turned blue and red. He had realized what it was like for Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who had been humiliated by him back then. He had commented on Google in front of them. A bunch of what, $750,000, Excite doesn't even want it!

Now Irene also gave George Bell a choice. In the eyes of Google, Excite is that pile of rubbish. It can be regarded as worthy of it, but after passing this village, there will be no such shop!

George Bell wanted to leave angrily several times, but his rationality made him sit down again. Now he would not have to be humiliated if he went out, but the Excite company was estimated to be doomed, so George Bell would have nothing, and he would also be burdened with debts .

"George, the Internet market is different now. Google doesn't necessarily want to acquire Excite. In fact, in the past few days, Inkomi Search, Ask Search, and AltaVista have all sought Google's acquisition, and even Lycos, one of the four major portals in America. , all sent invitations to Google!"

Listening to Khosla's "good intentions", George Bell's face turned pale for a moment. The Internet industry is now full of companies with a market value of tens of billions of dollars, and now they are all at the price of cabbage. You can buy it for 140 million US dollars, and Inkomi search only sells for 230 million US dollars.

The most outrageous thing is that the Lycos portal, which was so popular before and could compete with Yahoo and ICQ, is now selling itself for 5 billion dollars. You must know that at its peak, it was a giant with a market value of more than 50 billion. company!

  George Bell was lucky. Even if he was humiliated by Google, at least he made a price for it. Other Internet companies that are waiting to be humiliated by Google can't find a chance...

Irene raised a watch that Song Yang gave her, glanced at the time, and frowned, as if she had exhausted her patience and was not interested in wasting time with George Bell. This scene made George Bell · Bell and several senior executives couldn't help feeling tense.

   "Excite is willing to sell!"

When Irene was about to speak, George Bell said with a bitter face that he had no choice but to choose the latter between going bankrupt and selling himself at the price of cabbage. die!

  Irene glanced at George Bell. She just put pressure on the other party. ICQ has made countless acquisitions and transactions.

Of course, Excite is not that bad. Before Google, Excite’s user visits were second only to ICQ, Yahoo, AOL Time Warner, and Lycos. It can be ranked among the top ten websites in the world in terms of user visits. There are still many die-hard fans. of.

  Even now, in America, Excite’s search market has been taken away by Google, and the advertising fee cannot be collected.

  Overseas, Excite is still the largest search engine brand in Japan, Spain, and parts of North America. With Excite Search, Google is equivalent to directly taking over the search market in these regions, and there is no need to squeeze in.

In addition, AtHomeGorp, which was acquired by Excite, is not useless. It is also one of the players in broadband service providers. It is the same path as AOL. Google does not need AtHomeGorp, but its brother company America Telecom can directly take over , Even if you have a black heart, package AtHomeGorp and sell it overseas as a high-tech company. It is estimated that you can earn hundreds of millions of dollars.

   But these all take time to do. Excite just has no time, so it can only let Google cut leeks.

After the agreement was signed, Irene said bluntly, "The Excite brand will no longer appear in the market. The entire Excite company will be merged into Google, whether it is the brand or its employees, including President George Bell. you…"

There are only a few hundred employees left in Excite, which just happened to be swallowed up by Google, which can also save a severance pay. As for George Bell, Irene did not kill the donkey, and was directly driven away. If he wants to stay , then you can join Google, the CEO is hopeless, and it’s okay to be an executive. If you want to leave, then you can do whatever you want. Anyway, it is impossible for Google to provide him with a huge unpaid retirement fee!

  George Bell listened to Irene's arrangement for Excite, and didn't have any objection. He didn't resist just now, but now that they have been acquired, he resisted a hammer. Wouldn't it be unnecessary to take off his pants and fart.

As for leaving Google, George Bell didn’t have that thought. It’s freezing outside, and the wind from the Internet is so cold. He can still get a high salary while staying at Google. When Google goes public, he still has a chance to get equity rewards, and his value soars. a lot.

  As for leaving Google, based on the ghost market of the Internet now, where can George Bell go to find a high-paying salary?

   After Irene finished handling the affairs of Google and Excite, she brought Larry Page and the others to Song Yang's villa. Today they will come to meet a selected candidate for the head of Google.

   When Irene passed by, she saw Song Yang sitting there with a middle-aged man, and they seemed to be having a good chat.

"Schmidt, do you know that the first time I saw your name was when a headhunter selected the head of Double-click Company, but at that time you were a very popular "big shot" in Sun Company. your turn!"

Song Yang said to Eric Schmidt who was sitting on the side. As a true Wall Street elite, Schmidt's resume definitely meets this standard. He graduated from Princeton University and then entered the research and development holy land of America "Bell Experiment room", and then entered Xerox Gold Plating, and then entered SUN Company. With his support, Java became the sharpest spear in the hands of SUN Company. license, and then make magic changes.

Seeing that in SUN, there will always be only one real speaker, McNealy, and it will never be possible to climb over this mountain. Schmidt came to Novell Systems before the Internet explosion. Soaring up against the wind.

But after the NASDAQ crash, Novell was also beaten back to its original shape. Now Schmidt is facing a new choice in life. They say that Schmidt is lucky, but the timing of his job-hopping is enough for ordinary fishing masters After studying kung fu for several years, it is better to be a cow than a horse to change jobs. Schmidt has fully practiced this theory. Ordinary leeks may jump from one big hole to another big hole when they change jobs.

But Schmidt never quit, because his worth jumped higher and higher, and his reputation grew bigger and bigger. This time, Google chose a new head, and the headhunting company quickly recommended Schmidt to him. Rumor has it that Schmidt I have the idea of ​​leaving Novell, which may have suffered a lot of losses. Schmidt's job-hopping is not just due to luck, but his vision is also good enough.

When Schmidt heard Song Yang mention this past, he couldn't help being stunned. He didn't expect that Song Yang had seen his profile a few years ago, and even listed him as a candidate for the head of the double-click company. one of the people...

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