In the morning, a resolution was made at the dinner table, and in the afternoon, Ahn Joon-hyuk held a board meeting with Zuckerberg, chairman of the board of directors, to publicize the rejection of the Yahoo takeover, and took the opportunity to vote on the full opening of Facebook.

According to Ahn Joon-hyuk's original opinion, this meeting may not be easy, but the truth is beyond his expectations. Breyer, Tyre, and Sze, who were on the same front, went their separate ways, and Breyer believed that the workplace network had just failed for a long time, and that the full opening was too hasty. Thiel retorted that it was precisely because of the failure of the workplace network that it was all the more important to open up before its negative impact turned into a heavy burden on Facebook, which could dilute the current negative situation facing Facebook.

Breyer angrily denounced this decision as a thirst-quenching thirst, an extremely irrational gambler's psychology, and pushing Facebook into the abyss, and then Si Ze, who has always been neutral, continued to express neutrality, and saw that the general trend had gone, and left the table angrily, and that vote naturally abstained.

Until the meeting disbanded, Zuckerberg still couldn't believe it, he looked at Ahn Junhyuk: "The resolution passed like this?"

Hearing this, Ahn Junhyuk, who was looking at Tyre's distant back, withdrew his gaze and smiled: "Yes, it's passed." ”

"Shit!" Zuckerberg burst into a foul mouth, "We discussed so many countermeasures before we were, racking our brains to think about how to break them up, but I didn't expect them to fight among themselves first." ”

"I think it's quite normal, but at yesterday's shareholder meeting, Thiel and Sze abstained from voting. At that time, Breyer's eyes were not very friendly to them, and it must have been a falling out!" Moskowitz said disapprerovingly, "Speaking of which, it is because of Ann, if his speech hadn't shattered their intentions, it wouldn't have gone so smoothly now." ”

"Oh, maybe!" Ahn Joon-hyuk didn't know what he was thinking, he just laughed, "Anyway, it's passed, let's start acting!"

As he spoke, he closed the folder of the meeting. Zuckerberg and Moskowitz agreed. Facebook, the tiny cog attached to the giant machine of Silicon Valley, quietly went into motion.

For Silicon Valley people in mid-August, the cool climate around San Francisco Bay didn't dampen their enthusiasm. July. Dominate the internet for the past few years. Yahoo, one of the undisputed giants of Silicon Valley, has officially stepped down from the altar, and the data reported in the new fiscal quarter has hit the giant hard. The predictions of many analysts that followed also pointed more and more headwinds at it.

At sunset, the west mountain, the tiger falls in Pingyang.

If it is described as an idiom, it is probably the case, the whole Silicon Valley is paying attention to all the means of saving the giant, they analyze what the impact of each move of the giant will bring, and then pour cold water on it, ironically, and the popularity will go up.

As Yahoo to save its own many acquisition plans, the largest amount of 1.3 billion Facebook, naturally is also the object of people's attention, of course, in the eyes of most Silicon Valley people, Facebook is nothing remarkable, now the leader in the social field is MySpace, Facebook is just a college student toy.

However, in the eyes of some knowledgeable people, Yahoo's intention to acquire Facebook can be said to be the most correct acquisition in recent years.

In just 12 years, the giant has grown old, the up-and-coming Google has taken away its market in the search field, and the Web 2.0 standard established in 2004 also heralds the departure of an era - an era pioneered by Yahoo.

Even not only Yahoo, but also Internet companies that have survived the IT bubble at the beginning of the century are facing a change.

A change promoted by a small number of professionals as Internet weavers to interact with the whole people and promote the whole people's networking.

The popularity of blog technology and wiki hypertext has foreshadowed this trend, but no one has dared to predict the scale of this change.

But in general, the center of the conversation is still Yahoo, and no one cares if Facebook wants to be acquired.

As Yahoo CEO Terry Semel said in an interview, "Who would say no to $1.3 billion?"

So when some people received that Facebook had called an extraordinary shareholder meeting to re-elect its CEO, and had rejected the Yahoo takeover at the initiative of a new CEO candidate, almost everyone could not believe it.

But just two days after receiving the news, Facebook held a high-profile press conference to formally communicate the resolution to Yahoo, including the expiration date of the shareholder meeting.

Facebook's third CEO, South Korean Ahn Joon-hyuk, said in front of many media at the meeting:

"On behalf of all my colleagues at Facebook, I would like to thank Yahoo, a great company that has pioneered and led the Internet era under the leadership of Mr. Yang Zhiyuan and Mr. Terry Semele. However, after careful consideration, Facebook believes that there are huge differences in innovative thinking between the two sides, so it has to regretfully refuse to ......"

With his speech, there was an uproar at the press conference, and the flashing lights were baptized like a torrential rain, and on the podium where he spoke, Ahn Junhyuk ignored these and continued: "...... On the other hand, it's also our little desire to remain independent, and both Zuckerberg and I think Yahoo's corporate culture and spirit are legendary and infectious, and in that culture and spirit, it's the culture and spirit that has led the global Internet change for 12 years, but it's the culture and spirit that is so distinctive that we can't accept the merger of Facebook into Yahoo. Facebook has its own ethos, and once it merges with Yahoo, it's no longer Facebook, which is contrary to our ideals, so we can only make this difficult decision, and once again thank Mr. Terry Semel and all the members of Yahoo's Board of Directors for their love, but I believe that there is more room for cooperation in the future. ”

The speech was very brief, and the rhetoric of rejection was quite formulaic and joyful, and after a moment of stunned moment, the media suddenly woke up, obviously not satisfied with such a standard form of diplomatic rhetoric, so that during the subsequent reporter's question time, almost everyone in the audience raised their hands.

Ahn Jun-hyuk on the stage casually clicked on one of them, and the reporter immediately asked, "May I ask Ahn ......?"

"Ahn Joon-hyuk!"

"May I ask Mr. Ahn Joon-hyuk, what exactly did you mean by the huge difference between Facebook and Yahoo in terms of innovative thinking in your first statement?"

Since he dared to put forward this reason in his speech, Ahn Junhyuk naturally made some preparations, and when he heard this, he replied without thinking: "The difference is reflected in the core, in 04, the famous brainstorming forum, put forward the concept of web2.0, I think this is where we are different." Yahoo is undoubtedly the pioneer of web1.0, it has rich operational experience in this traditional network with technology as the core, but Facebook adheres to the concept of web2.0, we pay more attention to the interaction between people, we believe that users are the core, we want to create an open, open, user-woven platform, these two cores are completely different, I and all my colleagues at Facebook believe that they even conflict with each other to some extent, so we say disagreement. ”

The reporter immediately asked, "You mean, in the social space, you put Facebook on an equal footing with Yahoo?"

The people in the audience immediately pricked up their ears intently.

Glancing at the man, An Junhyuk then looked away lightly and nodded: "Yes, in the social field, Facebook is not weaker than any Internet company. ”

Buzz –

For a moment, the reporters felt that they were really going to love this Asian to death, and he dared to say it.

Originally, so many media came over today, but they couldn't believe that a small company actually had the courage to get rid of the temptation of Yahoo, and then they really felt that the trip was worthwhile - they liked this kind of bold and open-mouthed, which did not require them to make up their brains and automatically concoct sensational topics.

After that, the question time became more enthusiastic.

"Mr. Ahn Joon-hyuk, you said in your speech that Facebook has its own spirit, what is this spirit?

Far away, Ahn Junhyuk couldn't see which newspaper or magazine the reporter who raised this question was for a while, but he was ready to be ridiculed like this, and he didn't care about the low laughter below, and said calmly: "The spirit of Facebook is the spirit of hacking, that is, freedom, freedom without restrictions, without scruples, on Facebook, you can do whatever you want, and let these things be seen by your friends and convey your pursuit to them." Sex is also free, college students are adults, they have enough wisdom to understand what they should do and what not to do, our philosophy is to create a platform where they can interact freely, to free them from the shackles, rather than like parents, to regulate their words and deeds in a rigid framework......"

Some people in the audience sneered, but some people gradually developed some interest in understanding from contempt.

On today's Internet, such a view is relatively new, especially the expression of the so-called "hacker spirit", since the rise of the Internet, hackers have once become the existence of rats crossing the street, and this is the first time that a company dares to admit to the outside world and regard hackers as representatives of freedom.

As a result, there were obvious two factions in the media reports on the press conference the next day.

"'Facebook and Yahoo are on the same level' megalomaniacal kid and Harvard dropout!"

"$1.3 Billion Rejected, Facebook: What We Need Is Freedom!" (To be continued......