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   Chapter 537 The Fisherman's Profit

   The scale of ICQ personnel in Song Yang's hands has exceeded 1,000. Just one ICQ plus Xue Leshan makes ICQ's personnel scale, and now it is one of the largest companies in the Internet industry in America.

  It is another matter of making money or not, but it is the largest company in terms of staff size. Together with PayPal, DoubleClick, Fortis, eBay and other companies, Song Yang has almost become one of the biggest hilltops in Silicon Valley.

  There is a sentence from Song Yang, if you can mobilize people from ICQ and other companies, the progress of Aaron Swartz's Wikipedia will be much faster.

When    left Song Yang, Aaron Swartz looked back, he felt that Song Yang seemed to have revealed something to him today, but Aaron Swartz didn't figure it out for a while.

  Swartz felt that Song Yang seemed to have no intention of competing with payment platforms such as X.com to burn money, but instead was more like waiting for something to come.

A thought vaguely rose in his mind, but Aaron Swartz felt it was too absurd. He felt that Song Yang seemed to be waiting for the Internet bubble to burst, but you must know that Song Yang is one of the biggest winners of the current Internet trend. , if the bubble is about to burst, then Song Yang is also the first unlucky group, which makes Aaron Swartz a little puzzled.

   shook his head, Aaron Swartz stopped thinking about it, these things are not what he needs to think about now, what he has to do now is to deal with PayPal and then build Wikipedia.

The current Aaron Swartz, if he wants to be valuable, has status and status, and can launch the Wikipedia he has always wanted to launch, he doesn't need to think about things in the future. Anyway, he knows one thing, that is, even if the entire payment is made The industry is over, and Song Yang is the back-up prepared by PayPal, which is also the last PayPal to fall!

  Song Yang watched Aaron Swartz leave. Regarding PayPal, Song Yang used to use US knife rewards to pull people’s heads when it first launched, but now he rarely burns money to grab users.

   As for other payment platforms willing to burn money to grab the market, that is their business, and Song Yang is also happy to see it happen.

  In an industry, if you want to start from scratch and cultivate it quickly, besides waiting, the most effective way is to burn money.

The most classic is the takeaway war and the taxi war. They all rely on constant money-burning, huge subsidies for users, and abruptly spending a few years to burn money to cultivate a market. It really realizes that sentence, there is no demand. , then create demand!

However, when the market is cultivated, it does not mean that the one who pays the money will definitely be the winner. Only the one who survives to the end will be the winner. In the Internet industry, there is only one winner. .

The same is true in the payment industry. With the help of PayPal, it is difficult for some strong people to take up a market in a short period of time. At this time, there are only competitors who are desperately developing the market to win over users, so that more users can use electronic payment platforms. The payment industry can become one of the mainstream payment methods.

Therefore, Song Yang also let X.com payment platforms and other payment platforms burn money and grab the market. As for whether they will threaten PayPal payment, it depends on whether they can survive when the Internet bubble bursts in a year or two. Let's see if there are any US knives, let's continue to challenge PayPal.

Even if X.com payment and other platforms can barely survive after the burst of the Internet bubble, then it will be the time when the real bayonet will become popular, and there will be a money-burning war with PayPal, otherwise, waiting for PayPal Buy the cabbage.

   As for Musk and others, it is unknown whether they will scold PayPal as the sixth and so on. Anyway, Song Yang is going to take X.com payment as a horse and let them help develop the payment industry.

   "Prepare a banquet party, ready to welcome Marcus, Collison and the others!"

Song Yang explained to Gallo in front of him that Marcus, Collison and the others, who had been tossing around in Southeast Asia for so long, had already begun to prepare for the end. Their earnings were incomparable to Goldman Sachs, but Song Yang had one more in his hands. large cash flow.

Marcus also helped America Telecom, Alcatel Mobile, PA Semiconductor, Panda TV, etc., to acquire a large number of industries and patents in Southeast Asia. Just buying Samsung semiconductors, LG panels, storage technology, etc., made Alcatel mobile phones a good choice. Great profit.

   As for the rest of the industry, not to mention the property market, real estate, office buildings, Siam Red Bull Company, etc., they were all bought at the price of cabbage.

Soros's Quantum Fund, Tiger Fund, etc., are still going to continue to work on foreign exchange such as Hong Kong City and Japanese Benzene, but Song Yang's side has already begun to wrap up, even Collison is still a little unwilling, thinking that he can continue to cut leeks. .

   "Are we wrapping it up now?"

  Collison couldn't help asking Marcus after hearing the news that they were going to return to America.

The place where Collison and the others are now is Bangzi, a mansion located in the Litaiyuan district of Bangzi Seoul, and it is also a gathering place for Bangzi chaebols. In Bangzi, it is said that "it's not surprising that you don't know Seoul, but it's strange that you don't know Itaewon." It can be seen that Great reputation here.

   The residence where Collison and Marcus are located used to belong to a chaebol, but now it is in the hands of the North American Global Investment Fund.

The big chaebols in Bangzi are now trying to survive by breaking their tails, constantly selling off various properties to pay off their debts. The luxury houses in places like Itaewon, even if they wanted to buy them before, had no way to do it, but now they have become the price of cabbage. As long as you have a knife, you can start.

  Marcus glanced at Collison, and let the servants who belonged here help pack up the luggage. When he took over this mansion, he basically took over everything here.

The servants, drivers, gardeners, cooks, concierges, etc. in the mansion of the apartment, except for the security guards who were replaced by the Blackwater Company, almost all the rest have stayed. The scene of smashing windows and grabbing roads in broad daylight, these people basically have to be displaced after they go out.

I took a look at the home improvement furniture in the mansion, pianos, sofas, stereos, etc., all of which are the top brands in the world. To be honest, Marcus has seen many mansions in America, but he was able to stay with this chaebol. Compared with luxury houses, I am afraid there are not many.

If he didn't want to return to America, Marcus would all be willing to live in this mansion. He can only sigh, the happiness of the chaebol chaebol is beyond the imagination of ordinary people. Everyone scolds the chaebol and everyone wants to be a chaebol. As long as there is that condition...

   "Soros and Tiger Fund are still working on it. If we finish it now, I'm afraid we will lose a lot of money!"

  Collison also wanted to convince Marcus, but in the end, only Marcus said coldly, "This is what Song meant. If you have any opinions, you can mention it to him after returning to San Jose!"

   (end of this chapter)