Thanksgiving is approaching, and the media heat generated by the New York Times interview has not cooled down in the slightest. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

With a dense high level of attention, if Eric stays in East Hampton for Thanksgiving, the media's attention is likely to shift to women and children. In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Eric flew to Maryland with the woman and children and Chris's family.

At the end of November, there was still no snow in the vicinity of Frederick County, Maryland, but the gentle hills and plains were long gone. However, as far as the eye can see, the rough and vast scene of high clouds and withered grass and trees can make people who have lived in the city for a long time feel a special sense of relaxation.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, a large group of people finally came out of the forest more than ten kilometers west of Jeffrey's Farm.

Jeffrey, who is getting older and stronger, carries a wild deer on his back, which is the result of a busy day for everyone.

Today is Thanksgiving, and the women are already preparing Thanksgiving dinner on the farm. Enjoying the crowd for the holidays, Jeffrey decided early in the morning that he had to add a roast venison to dinner, so he went hunting.

Originally, I only planned to take Chris and Eric, two sons and nephews, but when I heard that Grandpa Jeffrey was going to hunt, Emma was the first to shout to follow, and Kevin also looked like a little hopeful, Hawaii obviously couldn't be interested in this kind of thing, but in order to avoid the 'terrible Aunt Drew', the little girl also followed, so the hunt that was originally only planned to come out for an hour or two was lively and tossed for a day, more like an outing.

Joanna and Virginia were very reluctant and worried about the safety of the little ones, but after Eric nodded, the two women had to agree, but they still let the twins come with them to take care of the three little ones, and the women could always be more careful.

The three little ones followed, and Jeffrey naturally did everything, and even wanted to bring his little grandson to 'see the world', but unfortunately Emily was desperate. Daniel, who was only a year old, was just learning to walk.

At this time, Jeffrey walked in front with the wild deer on his back, surrounded by Kevin, Emma, and Hawaii, and the twins watched over them carefully.

Eric and Chris followed at the end with a few shotguns on their backs, because the three little ones were there, and the shotguns were useless all day, and the hapless wild deer was the result of a few hunting dogs. Carrying a shotgun with me was just for fear of encountering a fierce beast such as a black bear.

Looking at the group in front of him, Eric's eyes finally fell on the twins in simple suits.

Two tall girls with pale blonde hair tied in a ponytail, and occasionally a piece of white snow-like neck can be seen.

For some reason, Eric always felt that the temperament of the twins was very consistent with the cold and desolate scene around him at this time. If you think about it, this is probably because both girls are from Russia, which is perennially cold.

Loading the deer onto the buggy, Jeffrey drove the car himself, and the twins carried the three little ones to the back seat, and the car started to drive to the farm.

Eric and Chris followed in another SUV, while several hounds were completely unattended, and even if they couldn't keep up, they were able to follow their path back to the farm.

With the steering wheel on the wheel, speeding up a little, Chris glanced at Eric in the passenger seat and smiled, "This kind of life is actually not bad, right?"

"yes," Eric nodded, "but only once in a while, and we can't enjoy this life for as long as Jeffrey." The last time I went to New Zealand, you know, the scenery was beautiful, but there's still a saying that a week in New Zealand is heaven, and a year is hell. In fact, this is the case in many places. ”

Chris nodded, chatted a few words, and the topic still unconsciously turned to work: "Ian, they have complained to me more than once in private, and they have achieved an annual profit of $3 billion in five years, which has put a lot of pressure on them. ”

Eric shook his head and smiled, "It's obvious that their understanding is skewed, or they didn't read the interview carefully." I mean it will only take five years for Yahoo to match its current market capitalization, not that it will make $3 billion in annual profits in five years. That's Judith . Miller said. In fact, as long as Yahoo can continue to maintain its current high growth and a price-to-earnings ratio of less than 100 times, the market is acceptable. Many investors don't lack a long-term vision. ”

Chris nodded slightly, and then said, "Then how long do you think it will take for Yahoo to achieve its annual profit target of three billion dollars?"

"I really don't know this," Eric shook his head: "However, in fact, it doesn't take too long, Yahoo's annual revenue this year has been able to achieve more than 1.6 billion US dollars, and the revenue growth rate in the first two years is far more than 100%, then, in the next few years, as long as Yahoo's annual revenue growth rate is still above 100%, in five years, Yahoo's revenue should theoretically reach about 50 billion US dollars, according to the 20% profit margin, at that time, Yahoo's annual profit should be 10 billion US dollars." ”

"$10 billion, that's unlikely, right? According to Forbes last year, no company in the federal government has ever made $10 billion in annual profits. ”

Eric laughed, "It's unlikely. ”

In fact, the reason why Yahoo was able to achieve a revenue of more than $1.6 billion this year is because, on the one hand, in the face of the imminent listing, in order to make Yahoo's financial report more beautiful, the affiliates of the Firefly system have appropriately transferred benefits to Yahoo within the scope of the rules.

On the other hand, the surging tide of new technology has made the entire industry crazy to throw money. In order to promote their websites, Yahoo Portal and Yahoo Advertising Network have received a significant increase in ad orders and offers compared to last year.

If history does not change much, this good situation will continue next year.

However, once the dot-com bubble bursts and the entire industry enters a years-long winter, it is uncertain whether Yahoo's short-term revenue figures will be able to maintain the current state, let alone continue to grow by 100% next year.

In Eric's memory, the ice period after the bursting of the Internet bubble was actually not long, only about two or three years. With the rapid spread of broadband networks around the world and the substantial growth in the number of Internet users year after year, the Internet industry began to recover rapidly around 2005.

However, even if the Internet industry enters a cold winter state, but the huge user base that continues to grow is in front of us, Yahoo only does not make fatal mistakes in the direction of development, and by 2005, even if it does not achieve an annual profit of 3 billion US dollars, it should be almost the same.

After a pause, Chris suddenly smiled again: "Actually, if you are not very familiar with your long-term plans for Yahoo, I can't help but feel that your statement about the importance of the portal in an interview is very reasonable." In the next few years, a lot of people will definitely follow your theory, but they just don't know what the outcome will be. ”

A few years ago, Eric and Chris privately formulated a Yahoo development strategy of 'building a plank road and secretly crossing the warehouse', ostensibly focusing on the portal business and hyping up the importance of the portal business.

However, in private, Eric is still most concerned about the two major businesses of search engines and social networks. In my memory, in addition to e-commerce, or you can also add an online game, in addition, only these two major businesses in the Internet industry can bring very stable large-scale revenue.

"No one knows what the future holds, but judging from the growth of users of Google's search engine in the past six months, the strategy I formulated is actually not wrong. Even if the scale of the portal is large, it is impossible to meet the differentiated needs of hundreds of millions of users, and the future Internet content market will definitely appear more refined. ”

"But, Eric, have you ever thought about what if we turn to the search engine business in the future, what will happen to Yahoo's huge registered user base accumulated at this time, according to the calculation of 300 million Internet users in the world in 2000, Yahoo is confident that the scale of registered users will grow to more than 200 million, and in the future, this scale will definitely be even larger? It would be a pity if it was simply abandoned. ”

"Of course, it's to go to social networks," Eric said without hesitation: "Now that we have enough funds for development, we don't have to wait a few years to expand our social network business, and we can go hand in hand with the development of search engines." ”

According to Eric's original plan, the development of social networks will not reach its peak until the advent of the mobile Internet era.

However, the rapid growth of Yahoo's blog business in recent years has also made Eric see some other possibilities.

In the past, the outbreak of social networks was actually a stable business model formed after many years of development in the Internet industry.

But at this point, now that it knew which path was right from the start, Yahoo could have carved out a new social networking model that was unique to the PC era.

What's more, as long as Firefly Electronics' tablet PC is successfully launched, according to Eric's plan, it is not too difficult for social networks to be mobile in advance.

Chatting like this, the two cars quickly returned to Jeffrey's farm.

Joanna and Vickynia came out together, and they were relieved to see the three little ones jumping around Jeffrey.

Just comparing the dirty little appearance of some of the three little ones and Eric's still somewhat meticulous clothes, Vicgenia still glared at Eric with some complaints.

Jeffrey dragged the deer to peel and wash it himself, and Emma and Kevin excitedly followed.

However, Hawaii, who found Drew's figure, came from her father's side closely, and it was not until the girl followed Joanna and returned to the villa to prepare dinner that the little girl was relieved.

Over the years, Drew has become a deep shadow in Hawaii's heart, the poor little girl is extremely smart, but she doesn't understand why Aunt Drew is so terrible, and what's even more terrifying is that Mom and Dad, even Aunt Vicky, actually like to see herself bullied by Aunt Drew very much.

God, how could such an illogical thing happen in this world.

Everyone went about their own business, but Eric and Chris, the two idlers, had nothing to do, so Eric simply picked up his baby daughter who was by his side, walked with Chris to the fireplace in the living room of the villa and sat down, and continued the conversation while cooking the fire.

Chris continued: "I think it's still a shame to just go to social networking, because a large part of the population doesn't really have much interest in online social networking. ”

"Interests are cultivated, and we can even further develop social networks into an indispensable tool in people's lives, like search engines," Eric recalls the message in his memory, "If you think about it, if one day people can send party invitations through the circle of friends of social networks, or even become a trend, then if one does not want to be excluded by the people around them, one must have a social account." As long as they have a social media account, they will definitely not focus only on practical functions such as invitations, they will definitely involuntarily interact with people around hell, which is determined by the deep-rooted collective biological instinct of human beings, and as soon as they start to interact, over time, they will inevitably develop a dependence on social networks. ”

Chris listened carefully to Eric's words, nodded, and suddenly smiled again: "Internet party invitation, this is indeed a good note, but you don't seem to have said it before, if you tell Ian about this idea, they may have made it now." ”

"You can discuss this with Ian and the others when you have time, and you can even do some party-invited raffle promotions, which Hollywood can provide a lot of party opportunities that movie fans dream of. Eric grabbed his daughter, who wanted to come to the fireplace to study something, into his arms and said, "But while I have a lot of ideas in my head, I can't put too much effort into these trivial things, and Yahoo now has more than 6,000 employees, and these people are the ones who provide all kinds of ideas." If I need to do everything, what do I need to pay to hire so many people?"

"What you say makes a lot of sense, but on the other hand, even if the average Yahoo employee, and even the lower management, can come up with similar ideas and even make detailed project plans, in fact, there is not a word from you that can attract Ian's attention. ”

"It's inevitable," Eric thinks for a moment, "so let's have my assistant's office open a dedicated channel for creative ideas from Yahoo employees, and I set aside a few hours a week to do that." ”