Yang Yuan thought for a while and nodded: "There is still this possibility." ”

After speaking, he suddenly asked David Ferro: "David, the last time the head of the investment department of the data research company came to you, why didn't you refuse to agree to their investment? I think the investment conditions they gave are very good." ”

Three months ago, the people in the investment department of the data research company had contact with Yaho, and the other party proposed to invest 2 million US dollars to obtain 20% of the shares, Yang Yuan wanted to take this investment at that time, but David Ferro refused without hesitation, on the grounds that the company's current funds are enough, and now the old thing is brought up again, Yang Yuan suddenly wanted to ask David Ferro what he thought at the time.

David Ferro didn't raise his head: "Because the offer they gave was too low." ”

“......”

Yang Yuan's eyes widened: That's 2 million US dollars, it's just 20% of the shares, David actually thinks that the price given by the data research company is too low? That's a data research company!

David Ferro raised his head and looked at Yang Yuan, and said with a straight face: "Jerry, do you think our company has a future?"

Jerry is Yang Yuan's English name, and I don't know why Yang Yuan's father gave him such a name, could it be that he was watching cat and mouse at the time?

"Of course," Yang Yuan said without hesitation: "As long as someone goes online, he has a search need, as long as there is a search demand, we need our search engine, from this point of view, the more netizens, the greater our future, I have never had any doubts about this." ”

In addition to their own yaho, the vitality of the Excite search engine, infoseek search engine and the old LYCOS search engine run by several alumni of the same school all show that users need such a product, and it also shows that the search engine market is huge!

"I think so," David Ferro said seriously, "I think our Yaho can bring us a good report, and if it goes public, it may be worth more than $500 million!"

Yaho can be worth half a billion dollars?!

Yang Yuan's eyes widened in surprise, but immediately, he became excited, if Yaho can really go public, even if after several rounds of financing, he can only retain 20% of the shares, it is worth 100 million US dollars!

If you get to that point, you'll be a billionaire yourself!

As soon as the idea of a billionaire came out, it was like a sledgehammer slammed into Yang Yuan's head, making Venus appear in front of his eyes.

"So, Jerry, now that you realize that we have a great future, you are firmly optimistic about every penny of our shares, this is all money!" David Ferro said to Yang Yuan.

Yang Yuan nodded heavily: "Don't worry, David, I will definitely be optimistic about every cent of our shares!"

His partner's words reminded him that we are going to become billionaires in the future, and every share released at this time will increase in value hundreds or thousands of times in the future, so although it is necessary to release some shares to introduce investors for the development of Yaho, it is necessary to make every share released super valuable.

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Coincidentally, when David Ferro and Yang Yuan were talking about Chen Geng, Chen Geng was also talking to Dorothy Kiridale about David Ferro and Yang Yuan's yaho search engine.

"Boss, I think that with the development of Internet technology and the increasing number of Internet users, the investment department must increase its investment in the Internet field, especially in search engines. When it comes to search engines, Dorothy Kiridale said.

"That's right, with the continuous expansion of the number of netizens and more and more information on the Internet, everyone must need a good search tool to help them find the information they need from the Internet," Chen Geng nodded approvingly: "Now there are four good search engines, which one are you more optimistic about?"

In addition to yaho, the more well-known search engines in the US market, in addition to the world's first search engine WorldWideWedWanderer and the world's second search engine ALIWEB, are Infoseek, Excite and LYCOS.

"I'm more optimistic about Yaho," Dorothy Kiridale said without hesitation.

"Yaho?" Chen Geng was a little surprised: "I thought you were more optimistic about infoseek." ”

Chen Geng makes sense to say this, because compared to Yang Yuan's yaho, the Infoseek search engine, which was just launched at the beginning of this year, is more of a comprehensive outlet than a search engine, because in addition to the search service, Infoseek also offers many useful additional services, such as emailing news, conducting Chinese searches, searching by geographic area, and redundant personal financial folders.

In addition to a variety of additional services, Infoseek also has its own unique search algorithm, which supports full-text search of large sections of text, and ensures the recall and accuracy of the search, so the search accuracy is quite high, and because of these, Infoseek has become a powerful information service center from a search tool.

Well, having said all this, I guess everyone is more interested in another thing about Infoseek: if nothing else, the leader of global Chinese search: Baidu's handsome guy Li, will join Infoseek next year and become a core engineer of Infoseek.

Dorothy Kiridale shrugged: "Infoseek is indeed a very good search engine, but I'm more bullish on Yaho, and of course, if possible, I hope we invest in both search engines." ”

"Did you vote?"

Dorothy Kiridale has some regrets: "I voted for infoseek, but Yaho didn't make it. ”

"Didn't vote?" Chen Geng was a little surprised: "You mean that the people from our investment department went to Yaho, but were rejected by Yaho?"

This is a big surprise to Chen Geng, there will be people who refuse the investment of data research companies?

Dorothy Kiridale shrugged, "I'm a little incomprehensible too. ”

Chen Geng thought for a while and asked, "Is the investment department's conditions too harsh?"

"How is that possible!" said Dorothy Kiridale in surprise, "$2 million in exchange for 20% of the shares, do you think this condition is harsh?"

With the market value of Yaho at its peak of up to 128 billion US dollars, 2 million US dollars want to take away 20% of the shares of Yaho company, which is indeed a bit excessive, but investing in this kind of thing, has never been like this, I can't know that your company can have a total market value of more than 100 billion US dollars when it is the most valuable, and take out more than 20 billion US dollars to buy 20% of your shares, right?

It's not a fair deal, it's not an investment, it's a brain pump.

And judging from Yaho's current situation, $2 million in exchange for 20% of the shares is really not too much at all.

Thinking of this, Chen Geng thoughtfully: "In this case, it can only be said that the two co-founders of Yaho are very ambitious." ”