Chapter 191: Harming Others and Benefiting Ourselves (2/3)
"There is still no idea of financing at the moment, and Facebook has enough liquidity to hold on for a while. ”
Although he is Chinese, he has eaten a lot of Chinese food, but Ye Dongqing rarely participates in this "wine table culture", his uncle used to go to dinner often, but they often did not take him with him, and he had the impression that his father would often take the whole family out to eat, but that memory was already very vague, and with the death of his parents, the connection between his parents was also broken.
I don't know whether Yang Zhiyuan knew it, or if he had read the relevant information temporarily, and nodded at the moment and said: "Well, loan development is a good way, which requires a lot of confidence, and more entrepreneurs are pulling investment, just like I raised money at the time, and when the business started, I began to regret it, and I felt that I had lost money on the shares."
I heard that a bank has lent you hundreds of millions of dollars, plus the company itself sells advertising money, if you don't buy other companies, it is estimated that it will be no problem to hold on for five years, and it is not too late to refinance when the shares are worth the money, unlike search engines, users have too many memories and friends in your products, as long as they have used it for a period of time, they will not easily transfer to other platforms, and my new rival Google has recently developed a product similar to Facebook?"
"yes, and sued my company, where do I remember reading it, when the two founders of Google wanted to sell the program to Yahoo?"
"It's only a million dollars, and the people under my command don't think it's useful, and they don't even tell me that if they know that they will cultivate such a competitor, even if they offer a billion dollars at the time, I will definitely buy it, and the loss is so big that I dare not think about it, and it is useless to regret it. ”
The waiter was serving, Wen Yan looked at Yang Zhiyuan and Ye Dongqing, and subconsciously thought that he was bragging, thinking that the wine had not been drunk yet, and the cow had already blown up first.
After eating a mouthful of cold cucumbers, Yang Zhiyuan clinked glasses with him after speaking, he didn't feel the aroma of wine, Ye Dongqing only felt spicy, the kind that kept being spicy from his throat to his stomach, he put down the cup and quickly ate a mouthful of food, and said in his mouth: "I also hope that you bought it at the beginning, so that you can come and harm me now, Google is quite good, let businessmen buy advertisements through keywords and make a lot of money."
But it's just a search engine, not as comprehensive as Yahoo's portal, but they only pay attention to advertising, so they can concentrate resources to develop, with Yahoo's current resources, it's not impossible to do Google, I think we can work together, open up a Yahoo search page directly on the Facebook social page, and you also promote my Facebook, which is good for both of us, it's better than giving advertising inventory to Google. ”
“…… This suggestion is good, you can take the time to talk carefully about how to cooperate, everyone helps each other, and don't talk about who takes advantage of whom, if you can achieve cooperation, bundle user resources, the effect of one plus one is definitely greater than two. Yang Zhiyuan raised his glass again.
The reason why it is specifically said that who takes advantage of whom, mainly because the scale of Facebook is now much worse than Yahoo, whether it is the number of users or market value, it seems that Ye Dongqing is the more cost-effective party, but Yahoo has nothing to lose, this is the reason why Yang Zhiyuan nodded in agreement, the advertising market is too big a cake, don't worry about being divided too much, compared to FB, Google is the real enemy of Yahoo.
"Well, we'll talk about it later, you think about it first. ”
Ye Dongqing's real psychological age is actually about the same as Yang Zhiyuan, Yahoo had been sold for more than $4 billion before jumping off the building, and now the scale is stronger than Google, and it has already started overseas business.
Helping FB is one thing, and I haven't forgotten to take revenge on Google, and after a glass of wine, Ye Dongqing knocked on the side and said: "Let me say something from the heart, Brother Yang, don't mind, although Yahoo's business is so wide now, but it is not as competitive as Google, users say that Google is to search for information, and Yahoo's business is too miscellaneous, it is better to concentrate on expanding overseas markets first."
Winning the United States is only a third of the success, the international market is more important, the page layout needs to be changed more, a company with a market value of more than 20 billion dollars, can't you afford to hire a few programmers? I've been using it, it looks a little messy, in addition to the content, user goodwill is also very important, news or something can be completely separated, set up a subsidiary that provides professional news services, and few people like to be disturbed by other information when searching for something?"
Yang Zhiyuan peeled peanuts, the amount of alcohol was not good, and his face was already red after a glass of wine, thinking that it was just a young man who liked to express his feelings, but it seemed that it was indeed feasible to divest part of the business or something.
If the time is pushed forward by two years, he will definitely only see it as a deaf ear, but recently, with the rise of Google, Yang Zhiyuan, the CEO of Yahoo, has felt the pressure, those businesses do not make much money, and the portal site is diverted sharply, which weakens the competitiveness in the minds of advertisers, Yahoo does not make money, but makes other websites make a lot of money.
If you want to say who knows Yahoo best, it must be him, a lot of new business has just been launched for a short time, and it is not troublesome to want to divest and integrate, he opened his mouth and replied: "This is a good suggestion, I will have a meeting with someone tomorrow to talk, and now I can't figure out how to manage the company next, and some things I want to do are restricted by the board of directors." ”
"The corporate atmosphere is also very important, recruit more young people to help come up with ideas, there must be a suitable one out of a hundred ideas, Google is developing so fast, it naturally has its reason, and Yahoo is more famous now. It's possible to develop a voting widget and ask users what they like, what they don't like, and what needs to be improved, and I think that if you want Yahoo to go further, streamlining is the key, and the main business must be put in the first place......"
Just in order to avenge a small revenge, Ye Dongqing was able to come all the way to Silicon Valley, specially invited Google's opponents to dinner, and helped to give development suggestions on the side, anyway, he was not ready to invest in Google, and he was bored with idleness, so he called Google a serious one.
For the time being, it is not clear whether Yang Zhiyuan will listen to it, anyway, what should be said has been almost said, as for the acquisition of advertising channels, investment in social platforms or something, these involve Ye Dongqing's own interests, so he deliberately avoided it and did not give it all up.
If Yahoo can cooperate with Youtube and Android, he is sure that Google will not be able to turn over, and it will definitely not reach the scale of the previous life. is definitely a terrible opponent, Ye Dongqing's cake has been bitten by someone, it is strange not to blow up the hair, this time it was Google that made the first move on him.
After sitting on the plane for so long today, he was not in good shape, he had a glass of white wine, he was already a little floating when he walked, and he had a smile on the corner of his mouth when he sat in the car......