Back To 1995

   Chapter 209

  Aaron Swartz understood that Song Yang was doing an exchange with him. He developed and completed the PayPal payment project for Song Yang, and Song Yang supported him in building a Wikipedia website.

  The concept project of Wikipedia is what Swartz has always wanted to do and never wants to give up. "If the development goes well, it is expected to be tested before the end of the year, and it will be officially launched next year!"

   "The PayPal platform, the most important thing is not payment, but the connection with banking institutions, as well as security and cross-border remittances."

Aaron Swartz said sharply, after years of hard work, Swartz is no longer the fearless rookie he used to be. He knows how banks deal with competitors, and it can be said that he does everything he can. .

Banks are reluctant to make changes easily. When Swartz was at the bank, his job was to maintain the security system for Citibank, even if Swartz suggested to Citi executives that he could build a more secure system for Citibank. However, Citi would rather pay to maintain an old system with frequent problems than to develop a new security system.

  PayPal can be said to be aimed at the life of the bank. Once it is developed, the bank will definitely pour dirty water on it. Any unsafe, money laundering, fraud and other dirty water will definitely be poured on PayPal.

   "PayPal security issues are handled by Fortis Security. After the development is completed, PayPal will have its own collaborators!" Song Yang said to Swartz.

   "I hope you can form a development team as soon as possible. The development office is located in the ICQ office building. Erin Doherty will provide all the support for the PayPal development team!"

   When Swartz got up, Song Yang explained to him again, "Before the development is completed, I hope PayPal can keep it secret."

   This time, it is no different than Telecom America. Telecom America is forcing the futures companies on Wall Street to cooperate with Telecom America. But if the PayPal project leaks ahead of time, I am afraid that the banking institution will be a killer!

"I see!"

Without Song Yang's explanation, Swartz knew what he was doing. Once the banking institutions knew about the project that was going to dig their graves, Song Yang might not be able to clean up for a while. These developers, banks can never be soft-hearted.

As the saying goes, if you can't solve the problem, then solve the problem, the bank will deal with Swartz and the others, such as suspending loans, canceling bank accounts, checking tax issues, and even sending them to the federal police station directly on false charges. These tricks are absolutely useable, killing chickens and warning monkeys, so that people in Silicon Valley will never dare to touch the PayPal project again!

  The PayPal project was formed. The degree of confidentiality on Song Yang’s side was far higher than in the past. Several vest projects were registered to cover the projects of the online payment platform.

   For the people who entered the project, Song Yang also paid high salaries several times higher than the salary in Silicon Valley, so that all the people involved in the project signed a non-disclosure agreement.

   Even in the name of security, he specially asked Gallo to transfer two teams of people from the Blackwater Company to squat at the gate of the PayPal project day and night.

   After dealing with San Jose, Song Yang, Marcus and Feita took a chartered flight to New York.

  The private jet Song Yang hasn't started yet, so he can't afford it. With Song Yang's worth, it's definitely not a problem to keep a private jet.

But if you want to keep a top-level private jet with a cost of several hundred million dollars, Song Yang's current physique is still a bit too difficult. To spend so much cash to build a private jet for one price, for the current Song Yang, it is still not enough. Some are not worth it.

   After getting on the plane, Song Yang and Marcus sat in the back of the plane and whispered, Song Yang asked Marcus, who was in charge of his purse, "How are the preparations?!"

  Song Yang went to participate in the Yahoo listing ceremony this time, but he not only expressed his support verbally, but also asked Marcus, from the American Global Investment Foundation, to prepare a fund, ready to rush to raise Yahoo stock after Yahoo goes public.

   If you don’t spend real money, and even become Yahoo’s largest individual investor, how can it be worthy of the slogan of supporting Yahoo!

Yahoo is listed with a market value of $500 million. Even if the stock price rises on the same day, the market value will not exceed $1 billion. Even if you invest in Yahoo with a market value of $1 billion, you don't need to wait four or five years, even if it is shot next year. Yahoo stock, at least can earn dozens of times.

   "Song, do you really want to invest so much money in Yahoo?!" Marcus asked Song Yang in a low voice, but he knew how much money Song Yang had transferred this time to attack Yahoo.

  Song Yang is so optimistic about Yahoo, which is what Marcus didn't expect. Double-click company and Yahoo to exchange shares. Now Song Yang wants to put the America Global Foundation on Yahoo's board of directors.

   The question is not how much Song Yang is going to spend on Yahoo. What Marcus is worried about is Song Yang's opinion on how to play like this.

After hearing Marcus' words, Song Yang shook his head, "The Americas Global Investment Foundation is an investment foundation, I am me, although I am the major shareholder of the Americas Global Investments Foundation, it is you Marcus who make the investment decisions. Si, it has nothing to do with me, even if the investors behind Yahoo have opinions, they can't blame me!"

  Song Yang threw out a theory without blinking an eye, catching Lu Xun, what did I do with someone from Zhou?

Listening to this theory, Marcus was speechless, and he felt that it made sense. Even if Yahoo had an opinion on the savage style and placard-style investment of the American Global Investment Fund, that was his decision. Song Yang didn't know it, and whether other people believed it or not, anyway, Song Yang believed it.

   After a few words with Marcus, Song Yang sat down towards the position of the trio of Feita. The Feita company is now mainly managed by Xie Qing, Deng Feng, and Ke Yan.

   Participating in the listing ceremony for the first time, Xie Qing and the three of them were obviously excited and cautious, and the three of them deliberately changed into formal suits.

   Looking at Xie Qing and the others, Song Yang said with a smile, "It won't be too late for you to wear this outfit when Feita goes on the market!"

Hearing Song Yang's mention of Fortis going public, Xie Qing and the others were obviously stunned. Obviously they hadn't thought about the listing. Xie Qing pulled the tie down a little, shook his head and said, "Fortis still doesn't know when it will be able to go public. listed."

  America's antivirus security field includes several giant companies such as Norton and Symantec. Fortigate is only a latecomer. If he wants to overthrow these giants, Xie Qing thinks about it for himself at most, but he doesn't dare to say it.

Song Yang didn't see it that way. Looking at Xie Qing and Deng Feng, they said, "Fortis now is America's largest Internet online antivirus software. When it enters the foreign market next year, if Fortis goes overseas smoothly, it will be able to occupy overseas. Antivirus software market, that is the world's "number one" antivirus software company!"

   These words made Xie Qing and the others laugh, not to mention other things. Judging from the number of users, the Fortis online antivirus software under the banner of free has a terrifyingly high download volume among Internet users in America.

The Fortinet client has only been launched for more than half a year. Due to the drainage of Hotmail and ICQ, Fortinet has swept tens of millions of users in America. It may not be useful to install a Fortissate, but if there is no Fortissate on the computer desktop, I always feel uneasy. .

  Fortinet is also one of the Internet software with the fastest soaring users in the Internet industry in the past six months. Although it does not have the explosive user growth like ICQ, it is far more than other Internet companies.

   "But Flying Tower, compared with Norton and Symantec, the revenue is really far behind!"

Ke Yan sighed and said that the most profitable antivirus software must be corporate users, but Fortis is far from qualified in this regard. Except for DoubleClick, ICQ and several Internet companies in Silicon Valley, those big companies, There are still some doubts about the technology of Fortis. Before Fortis has proven itself, those big companies, banks and other institutions will not hand over the safety gate to Fortis.

   "In the Internet industry, the most important thing is not necessarily revenue. If Fortis wants to go public, it may be able to go public in a year or two!"

Song Yang chuckled and shook his head. As long as Fortis has enough users and traffic is large enough, even if the loss is a mess, he can still log in to Nasdaq, and the concept of "the world's largest Internet security company" is overwhelmed. Crazy hype.

  Xie Qing couldn't help but feel a little moved after hearing Song Yang's words. He ran out of Stanford halfway and built a flying tower, not just to catch up with the trend of the Internet.

   But after thinking about it for a while, Xie Qing still said, "I want to wait for Fortinet to launch the first generation of UTM safety equipment before discussing the launch of Fortinet!"

Relying on hype, of course, there is no problem, but if you want a hype to go on, you have to come up with something. Xie Qing doesn’t want to rely on just a gimmick. For Xie Qing, online antivirus software can only be regarded as the icing on the cake. The most important thing is UTM's chip firewall equipment, which is the foundation of Fortigate, and he doesn't want to give up.

  Song Yang nodded. He didn't interfere with the flying tower. Originally, he invested in the flying tower. Song Yang just didn't want to put the safety valve in the hands of others. He didn't expect to rely on the flying tower.

Fortinet is willing to work **** technology, and Song Yang is naturally happy to see it succeed. If it really wants to surpass Norton and Symantec in terms of security technology, that is, if Fortinet does not make money, Song Yang can throw money at it. go down.

  After the plane landed at New York Airport, Song Yang, Marcus, Xie Qing and others left the airport and rushed towards Song Yang's Long Island North Shore Manor.

This time, Yahoo's listing is different from the last time Netscape. The last time Netscape was very strong. In order to build momentum, all Internet companies were pulled over to create their own role as Internet leaders. Therefore, for those present, there are media Interview, to add heat to Netscape.

Although Yahoo also invited a number of guests, the focus of the publicity was entirely on the "Chief of Yahoo", so when Song Yang and the others arrived in New York, only a few media reported it, and all the attention was on it. In Yang Zhiyuan's body, Yahoo's "creating gods" campaign can be described as quite successful.

   (end of this chapter)