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   Chapter 51 Leek Field

  The relationship between Song Yang, Kevin Kelly and Wired magazine is very special, and the two sides are really "own people".

"I heard about the Double-click Company. It really makes people feel crazy. Maybe this is the Internet!" Kevin said to Song Yang. He remembered that when Song Yang came last time, he could only be regarded as a poor boy. After a few months, he has transformed himself into a millionaire.

  Song Yang also gave Kevin Kelly a gift and pushed him the latest PDA, "This is the latest PDA designed by Jeff Hawkins!"

   "Gifts from multimillionaires?" Kevin Kelly joked.

He also interviewed that Jeff Hawkins, but that guy had a tough time. PDAs were popular for a while, and then they were voted by buyers with their feet. Now Apple and other manufacturers have also entered the PDA market. The industry that does not make money in the first place kills the darkness.

  Song Yang pointed to the outside of the office, indicating that he didn't just give it to Kevin, the entire Wired magazine was "bribed" by Song Yang.

"Song, I think you should come to Silicon Valley. It's not easy to meet you now. You don't know how many media want to do an exclusive interview with you. Now those media are wondering if your Double Click company is built on a farm in Texas. !" Kevin looked at Song Yang and smiled.

Song Yang's face turned black. Those media were really wicked. They scolded Double-click Company around and said that Double-click Company was built on a farm. Isn't that a mockery of the old-fashioned Double-click Company? Of course, the whole of Texas is also hacked all year round in America. The existence of the New York and Los Angeles gangs is called Houston Hugh Village, not once or twice.

  Kevin couldn't help but smile when he saw Song Yang's face, "So Song, are you here for...?"

  Double-click is far away from Silicon Valley, the center of the Internet, which makes Kevin's story about Double-click only through some Texas media reports.

   "Talk about some cooperation with Yahoo. Double-click company wants to deepen the cooperation with Yahoo, including equity." For Kevin Kelly, Song Yang has nothing to keep secret, and doesn't mind telling him something that is not too important.

Hearing Song Yang's suggestion, Kevin Kelly stopped asking about it. Wired Magazine is not an unscrupulous tabloid. Is the banner of Internet culture!

Kevin Kelly and Song Yang casually talked about the latest rumors in Silicon Valley. Double-click company and Yahoo received huge investments in succession. Netscape's valuation skyrocketed, making the entire Silicon Valley completely restless. A large number of Internet companies grew up like leeks. Wall Street Funds from the global investment industry are also pouring into this leek field. As for who will cut the leek, it depends on who is better.

"Song, do you have any new plans?" Kevin just asked casually, and didn't have much hope. After all, it is not so easy to expect to establish a concept such as "digital advertising", even if Song Yang is Kevin I have seen the person with the sharpest sense of smell on the Internet.

   What Kevin didn't expect was that Song Yang nodded directly after hearing this, "There are some new ideas."

   "Isn't it convenient for Fang to say?" Kevin asked immediately, he wanted to know what thoughts came up from Song Yang.

Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Anderson and others once surprised Kevin Kelly, but now this group of people has slowly made Kevin lose the feeling of surprise at the beginning, not to say that these people are not Genius, but in their capacity, it is difficult to set off the new wave that sweeps the Internet and the technology industry.

   On the contrary, it was Song Yang in front of him, which made Kevin constantly pleasantly surprised. Now the changes in Silicon Valley are enough to explain everything. The emergence of digital advertising has made the website begin to show explosive growth!

   "I can guarantee that Wired Magazine will be the first to receive news, and by the end of this year at the latest, I will also cast a new project in Silicon Valley!"

   Before leaving, Song Yang said to Kevin Kelly that when he moved to Silicon Valley, Song Yang first had to find out the gang of media who mocked Double Click Company as a farmer, and never thought about appearing in front of Song Yang in the future.

Driving from San Francisco to the Silicon Valley area, the last time Song Yang came in a hurry, this time Song Yang noticed how many companies gathered in the valley of less than 25 miles of Silicon Valley, not to mention the famous HP, Kodak, Apple, Cisco, NVIDIA, etc. , As for the less well-known industry chain companies, there are more than a thousand.

   In addition, universities and various scientific research institutions gather here. Stanford, Berkeley, San Jose, Cameron and other universities also gather here for meetings. Stanford also has a large-scale industrial park here.

  Song Yang, who was sitting in the car, held a local map in his hand and glanced outside from time to time. He wanted to choose a suitable place for ICQ and other future industries, and build an office building in the future.

"Choose a piece of land here!" Song Yang took a pen and circled a piece of land in San Jose, and said to Greg, who was next to him. He was going to circle the land first, and then build a building when he had money. This move Song Yang followed. Yahoo learned it, and later Yahoo lost a mess. As a result, it sold the land used to build its headquarters for more than one billion dollars...

  Greck saw the big lump that Song Yang circled on the map, and felt a little pain in his forehead, "With the funds we have now, we can't buy too much land."

  Greek counted with his fingers, to maintain the operation of Double-click Company, to establish a New York branch, to develop Hotmail mailboxes and ICQ instant messaging, and now to buy land, the money flowed out like water.

   "Buy some of the land first, and then buy the land here if you have the chance. The money will be settled, I promise." Song Yang handed the map of the large site in San Jose to Greg.

Thinking about the housing prices in Silicon Valley in the future, even people in big companies such as Google and Intel are complaining. Those people in big companies also live an hour's drive away from their offices. Circle these places, whether they are built as offices The building is rented to those big dog owners, or it is developed into a community and sold to the people who work in Silicon Valley. Anyway, it is a guaranteed profit.

Yahoo moved out of the original office building and entered a new office building, but the style has not changed. When I entered, I heard deafening rock music. Various documents were piled on the computer desk, and there were still hills in the corners. fast food box.

   This is the "mainstream culture" of the Internet industry today. Now the Internet is like rock and roll. It is a culture that represents the trend and creates everything uninhibited. People who pour into this industry believe that they are changing the world.

   Of course, it has become a little different since I discovered that this thing can get rich.

  So the image and so on, the Internet industry doesn't care at all now, in comparison, Song Yang and Double Click Company are a bit out of tune....

   "Song!"

  The first thing Song Yang saw was Brady. After Brady and Song Yang shook hands, "I'm glad you can come to Song, Yang and Ferro are inside."

  Song Yang met Yang Zhiyuan, the controversial "Yahoo Chief" for the first time in a conference room.

   At this time, Yang Zhiyuan had long hair. When he saw Song Yang, he got up immediately and went up to give Song Yang a hug, "Nice to meet you, Song!"

   "You can call me Song Yang!"

Hearing that Song Yang's fluent Chinese was far beyond his imagination, Yang Zhiyuan was surprised for a while, and then he became more enthusiastic about Song Yang. Just like the current Yahoo, Yang Zhiyuan was somewhat complacent, but he was very modest and did not The slightest bit of pretence, just like the big brother who takes the lead in the school club.

Song Yang and Filo, as well as the current Yahoo CEO Tim Cooger, all greeted each other. Compared to Yang Zhiyuan, Filo was much duller. Although he also had a smile on his face, he had a kind of smile on his face. The feeling of being close to strangers, Cooger is a little bit incomprehensible.

   Just looking around, Song Yang had a vague impression of getting Yahoo now.

   "I didn't expect your Chinese to be so good!" Yang Zhiyuan looked at Song Yang and said, "You know, in Silicon Valley now, it's not easy to find someone who speaks Chinese!"

  Song Yang laughed, "There will be more and more in the future!"

After waiting ten or eight years, Yang Zhiyuan will look back and find that Silicon Valley is a mess. The streets are full of Ahsan who speaks Chinese and has a weird English accent. If there are not many major Internet companies who can speak Chinese , It is estimated that it can't even do business.

   "Song, I'm glad you can come, and Yahoo welcomes you to come!"

After Song Yang and Yang Zhiyuan talked for a while, Cooger said, at this time, we can see who is in charge of Yahoo right now. Although Yang Zhiyuan and Ferro are still the founders and shareholders of Yahoo, they are now sent by Wall Street. of people running Yahoo.

   "I think Brady has talked to you Song, and your presence here today shows that both sides are willing to cooperate further!"

   "Double-click is the most important partner of Yahoo. I want to exchange equity, which is beneficial to both parties!" Yang Zhiyuan said at this time.

   Hearing Yang Zhiyuan's sudden opening, disrupting his rhythm, Kuger frowned slightly, but quickly released, "This is also the will of Yahoo's board of directors!"

   "According to the valuation of both parties, Yahoo is willing to give up 5% of the equity in exchange for 18% of the equity of Double-click Company. In addition, Double-click Company needs to add one million dollars in cash and agree to some of Yahoo's conditions."

After    entered the topic, Kuger said unceremoniously, because Yang Zhiyuan and Song Yang just now had no mercy.

  This condition is a concession compared to what Brady mentioned on the phone before, but Song Yang still feels a little high, "Impossible, Double-click can only exchange 10% of the equity for Yahoo!"

   (end of this chapter)