I don't know where Yang Zhiyuan's courage and self-confidence came from, he actually wanted to buy YouTube, Zhou Shi, who witnessed the decline of Yahoo, would not sell himself to a four-like even if his brain was in water. A successful company is easy to define, or its main business is relatively simple and clear. Microsoft's operating system, office software, Apple's mobile phone, Google, Baidu's search, Facebook, Tengxun's social networking, Yahoo?

"How does Mr. Yang define Yahoo?" Zhou Shi also asked this classic question, if even he can't figure out what Yahoo is, then why should everyone believe that Yahoo has a tomorrow. Zhou Shi thought, even if you say, "Yahoo is a place where people get news, sports, entertainment, and related original content and become a part of their daily lives." "Zhou Shi is also willing to have further cooperation with you.

It's a pity that Yang Zhiyuan's arrogance may have seen Zhou Shi's hidden unremitting, or maybe he didn't feel respect for himself from Zhou Shi, with his enigmatic self-confidence: "Yahoo is Yahoo, the world's first Internet giant, Yahoo is still a great company!"

When the Internet first started, Zhou Shi had just gone to school not long ago, and he had not even been in contact with a computer, and after contacting the Internet, he felt that the Internet should be like this, and there was no feeling in the hearts of Yang Zhiyuan and his generation of entrepreneurs, and it was impossible to have any awe of Yahoo, perhaps it was the generation gap that made Yang Zhiyuan's many behaviors incomprehensible, and Zhou Shi didn't want to understand, you have your pride, and I have my self-confidence. The negotiations that had not yet begun broke up unhappily.

Soon after, he received a call from Maali.

"I heard that you made Yang Zhiyuan angry?"

"Probably, I asked him what kind of company Yahoo is, and he replied that Yahoo is a great company. Since he is so great, it is conceivable what will happen after the acquisition of YouTube, which cannot be resolved through negotiations. Zhou Shi explained

"I've been trying to persuade Yahoo to cooperate with YouTube, but I didn't expect him to go further than mine!"

"No, you're just cheating on me? Yahoo is obviously a mess, what's the good thing about working with them. Zhou Shi said a little unhappily

"It's good to be rotten, the worse the better, how can I get out if it's not rotten. Maali whispered over there

"No, you're ...... Cunning?" Zhou Shi did not use treachery

"Who thought so much at that time, it was their own death, no wonder others. And they're not without a chance."

Zhou Shi thinks about it, Yahoo's first-mover advantage is too great, if it can successfully transform in the mobile Internet era, the future development is really hard to say.

"I don't think Jerry is a good fit for a big business. Zhou Shi said euphemistically

"He is like Jin Yong's Zhang Wuji, he has early success, good luck, high martial arts, integrity and kindness, and can become an excellent best friend. However, he does not have the temperament and genes to be a leader. "Maali may have thought of last year at this time.

Ma Ali invited Yang Zhiyuan to cheer for Alibaba's partner conference in Hangzhou. At the venue, the founder of Yahoo tried his best to match the limelight of Ma Ali, and even Ma Ali showed off Yang Zhiyuan's respect and praise for him as if showing Alibaba's victorious achievements. When Ma Ali stood in front of Yang Zhiyuan and accepted the stormy applause from the audience, Yang Zhiyuan's face still had that humble expression.

Imagine Yang's failure at Yahoo, one is to hope that the company's performance will be boosted by acquiring startups, and starting in '97, he wasted $17 billion and ended up getting nothing. The second is that he realized the development prospects of search engines early on, but did not invest in large-scale research, but chose to cooperate with Google, hoping to monetize Yahoo's ads through Google's technology. This not only fattened Google, but also made Yahoo miss out on the early bonus of the search engine.

"By the way, how is Yahoo China, is there any improvement?" Zhou Shi doesn't want to continue to talk about Yahoo, his energy is now to promote YouTube to go public, to see if something interesting will happen.

"Professor Zeng went to Yahoo to become president. "Maali

"What kind of company is Yahoo China?" Zhou Shi continued

There was a sudden silence on the other side of the phone, of course, the mouth cannon is good, and it is so difficult to choose when it is your turn. Yahoo China's subsequent failures are clearly Maali's unshirkable responsibility.

"After you come back from the Spring Festival, we invite Zhou Dacang to get together. Ma Ali said with some loss, with a little unwillingness in his words.

Zhou Shi was noncommittal about such an outcome, but if he wanted to make it so simple for him to choose between Baidu and Alibaba, he would definitely not do it, and it was not necessary. As for Yahoo Search selling to Zhou Hongyi, that is their own business, and Zhou Shi is not ready to participate.

"I also made an appointment with Robin Li during the Spring Festival, do you want to get together for a get-together?" Zhou Shi has now also learned some Chinese people's way of speaking, not directly, but the meaning is very clear, at least he thinks it is very clear. Ma Ali asked him to assist in the merger of 360 and Yahoo Search, and Zhou Shi asked Robin Li to join in, apparently Baidu also entered the game and became a Baidu acquisition, no matter what the result was, they couldn't blame Zhou Shi.

Ma Ali obviously didn't expect Zhou Shi to make such a suggestion, to say that they wanted to consider cooperating with Baidu, they obviously also considered, but maybe they still want to maintain the independence of Yahoo Search, maybe there is no suitable opportunity to contact the candidate, and they did not choose to talk to Baidu, Zhou Shi's initiative may be an opportunity.

"Okay, when will you come back, we'll make an appointment. Maali unsurprisingly agreed.

"I'll try to find time, there's been a lot going on lately, so I can't spare time for the time being. ”

"What big moves do you have, do you have a chance for us?"

"This time it's a small thing, an internal problem within the company. "Zhou Shi

"What kind of talent are you going to bring in, is it Marissa Mayer?"

It's no wonder that Marisa Mayer at this time is the most powerful woman in Google, known as the first beauty in Silicon Valley, and is known as Scarlett Johansson in Silicon Valley. If Zhou Shi hadn't known that Shirley's future achievements were far greater than Melissa's, maybe he would have chosen to invite Google's first female programmer, ranking among the top 20 employees. However, the other party is even less likely to agree. The future Melissa, if it wasn't for Google's internal overhead, may not have jumped to Yahoo, but unfortunately Yahoo was lost in the end. It is still unclear whether Yahoo dragged Melissa down or Melissa hurt Yahoo.

"It's not impossible, no one can say what will happen in the future!" Zhou Shi

(End of chapter)