Saturday morning, November 15, 2003, fine.

Liu Yun and Liu Yueru each rushed to Hangzhou Airport with a suitcase. Yesterday afternoon, as soon as school ended, Liu Yun and his cousin got on a bus and rushed to Hangzhou, where they stayed in a hotel near the airport for one night.

Xinning City, located in Guangdong Province, is a county-level city and is under the jurisdiction of Meizhou City. Now that the direct flight route from Ningjiang to Meizhou has not yet been opened, the two of them can only go to Hangzhou to transfer and take a 7 o'clock flight in the morning.

A few days ago, Liu Yueru contacted Li Xingping, the founder of hao123, as the CEO of Youyou.com, and expressed his willingness to acquire hao123.

In the past half month, Youyou.com has become famous on the Internet, first live-streaming the matter of "Miracle MU" players going to Jiucheng Company to defend their rights, and even one step ahead of the three major portals to get the consultation of Blizzard executives who were attacked at the gate of Jiucheng.

Some analysts pointed out that in the second half of 2003, Youyou.com is very likely to become a dark horse in China's Internet industry. There are also economists who have carried out the stock price of Youyou.com, 17173 is valued at 10 million US dollars, and Youyou.com is valued at 5 million US dollars.

For this valuation, Liu Yun scoffed. He believes that since 17173 can be valued at $10 million, the value of Youyou.com should not be less than $7 million.

And the CEO of Youyou.com has attracted the attention of many media, this capable, sleek and beautiful president has attracted the attention of many reporters, and she has another halo on her head, the same school and professional sister of Alibaba founder Ma Yun.

Some people exclaimed, this mysterious English major of Hangzhou Normal University will cultivate an Internet upstart?

"When Li Xingping received my phone call at that time, he was a little surprised. Originally, he set up this website only to facilitate the Internet, and so millions, nearly 10 millions, of netizens use his navigation page to surf the Internet. Liu Yueru recalled the content of their conversation at the beginning, "He told me that now relying on hao123's advertising revenue, there is nearly 300,000 yuan in income every month." ”

Liu Yun leaned back on the sofa chair on the plane, half-closed his eyes and said: "This is just his bargaining chip, I believe that other Internet companies have consulted him about the price before us, and he is choosing the best." ”

For Baidu, the biggest role of hao123 is to greatly increase the number of visits from netizens. Netizen traffic is a lifeline for Baidu, and PPC is Baidu's main source of income.

Fortunately, it is still 2003, Baidu is looking for a new financing company, planning to go public on the NASDAQ, and the obsession with PPC is not as deep as that of later generations, and their merger and acquisition eyes have not yet been aimed at this insignificant hao123.

This is Liu Yun's biggest competitor in his heart, of course, maybe the God of Wealth a year later......

There are also three major portals, they have a huge user base, and unlike Baidu, they need to rely on PPC to make money, and the traffic demand for hao123 is not so urgent.

Liu Yun glanced at the notebook he carried with him at all times, and said, "I'm sure I can persuade him to buy hao123 for me." You must know that there are more and more navigation pages on the market today, and due to the increase in the number of visits to hao123 netizens, the money spent on server maintenance every year has also increased, and of course, there are a lot of promotion fees. ”

"I agree. Liu Yueru nodded and replied, "In my opinion, the world of the Internet is like a sea, and the big fish in the sea will always eat small fish. ”

The world of the ocean is like this, the creatures in the sea do not know any hunting skills, and only use the most primitive means, the large open mouth to eat the small ones. On the grasslands, smaller cats and canines can catch bigger prey through team cooperation.

Liu Yun continued: "Although hao123's monthly advertising revenue is very expensive, the cost of promotion fees will not be small. You should know that there are many navigation pages on the market, as long as the website creator behind them is willing to pay for them, those popular portals, as well as popular forums, can be bound to these navigation pages. ”

His words made Liu Yueru nod constantly: "Yes, such a navigation website is actually very easy to prevent, there is not much technical content, and only need to pay a certain amount of promotion fees, presumably it can occupy a certain proportion in the market." ”

Liu Yun nodded and said: "You are right, the market economy society is so realistic and cruel, if hao123 does not strengthen the promotion costs, and other navigation pages are constantly investing money in, then the number of netizen visits between the two will disappear." ”

"Just because you're number one today doesn't mean you can always be number one. Therefore, although hao123's advertising revenue is quite a lot every month, I believe that the expenses on promotion fees are also a lot, and he will not make a lot of money. Nowadays, selling at a high price is the most in line with the rules of the market. ”

Two hours later, the plane slowly landed at the airfield in the city of MZ.

Liu Yueru looked at her watch and said, "The hotel has been booked, should we go to the hotel to rest for a while and then go over, or will we put the suitcase and go directly?"

Liu Yun glanced at the sky and said, "It's still quite early, and it's only 9 o'clock now." After we went to the hotel to put our luggage, we went directly to Li Xingping. I think I prefer to negotiate in the morning because the air is better in the morning and my mind is clearer. ”

Liu Yueru glanced at Liu Yun angrily and said, "Poor mouth! I hope you can be so clever when you negotiate next." ”

The two stopped a car and went straight to the hotel that had been booked, and then put their luggage directly in their respective rooms, without any rest, and returned to the door of the hotel lobby, and took a car out of the traffic jam and went straight to each other's accommodation.

Guangdong Province is the center of the Pearl River Delta, an important economic region in China, and is also the most economically developed province in China. In Guangdong Province, the first-tier cities are only Guangzhou-Shenzhen, and the second-tier cities are Fushan, Zhuhai, and Guancheng, and now Meizhou is only a third-tier city.

However, there is still an endless stream of pedestrians on the road, one after another taxis whizzing by, and there are many luxurious private cars.

Although this city is not as prosperous as Ningjiang City, it is much better than Donghai City.

Liu Yun remembered that many of the well-known Internet companies in later generations were rooted in Guangdong Province. Yangcheng, known as the capital of the southern country, has NetEase and Vipshop. Standing at the forefront of reform, the special zone in Shencheng has Tencent, as well as Xunlei.

As for Jiangnan Province, there is only one really famous and large-scale enterprise Alibaba, and maybe one day in the future, he will add the Youyou network in his hands.