This kid has a future and is very good, and when the company was founded, he had to treat venture capital as an uncle, and he had to retreat from those who couldn't afford to offend, Li Jiaming admired Larry's sanity. That kind of hot-blooded thing is very enjoyable to do, and it is easy to be twisted to death by others with little fingers.

Of course, if Larry doesn't know how to find a chance to make friends with him after Li Jiaming leaves Backrub, it will also make Li Jiaming look down on him. Stepping on two boats and several boats, it is a matter of character between men and women, but there is a special name in the mall - long-sleeved good dancing.

But Li Jiaming, who only learned about the United States from film and television works, didn't expect that white people were far more direct than Chinese people. Larry drops him off the company, invites him to coffee, and finds a secluded café.

This is a good thing, the two entered the café and ordered two cups of coffee, and Li Jiaming directly snatched the initiative.

"Larry, do you know why we got into a conflict with Yahoo?"

"Sogo, I took a look at your search site, and I don't think the technology is very good, it's too far behind our engine."

White people are direct, never forget to belittle others and elevate themselves, but sogo's technology is really not very good. Li Jiaming has heard people say this more than once, if it weren't for Lao Zhang's two website navigation in his hands, and he knew the habits of Chinese people surfing the Internet, he would have been beaten to the ground by Yahoo (Huaguo) and was dying.

Li Jiaming, who was unimpressed, smiled and returned to his topic: "No, because of the concept!" Competition is only superficial, the reality is still a matter of concept, Yahoo believes that content drives technology development, and we believe that technology drives content, or even everything.

As people who love the Internet, when we see that others are doing something wrong, we will instinctively correct it, and if the other person does not agree with our philosophy, we will try to prove it to the other person. Of course, perhaps we are all too young to learn the compromises of mature people. ”

Although Li Jiaming is a yellow race, racial discrimination only exists in discrimination that is weaker than himself, and everyone's achievements are too different, which naturally allows Larry to listen attentively. Before graduating from university, Lee Ka Ming and his partners sent Sohu to the NASDAQ, and also founded an instant messaging software company similar to ICQ and a newly successful HH company, these glorious achievements are enough to make this young man look up.

Li Jiaming, who was blowing vigorously, also enjoyed the adoring gaze of this young man. Since people give face like this, then blow it more, leave a good impression on this young talent, and come to yourself when you are in trouble in the future.

"Is it okay to smoke here?"

"No, smoking in public is prohibited in Santa Clara, and anyone who breaks the law will be fined you or your boss. I'll take you somewhere, and there's it. ”

The two swapped the coffee for paper cups, and Larry ordered another one. With their coffee, the two of them went into the grove behind the café and walked through the grove to the landlord where Larry had rented a house. It's time to smoke here, and the unkempt white landlord is still enthusiastic about asking Li Jiaming to smoke big/hemp, and of course only indoors.

After talking for a few sentences, Li Jiaming couldn't help but admire the ease and ease of these white ghosts, this unkempt white ghost had also started a business before and succeeded. After selling Xiaopo to AOL, he became a multimillionaire, but he still likes the sloppy days of the past, and he also likes to rent a house to a young man like Larry to start a business, which is called the dream factory of Silicon Valley.

Of course, this white ghost has serious racial discrimination, but he will not discriminate against a billionaire like Li Jiaming who wears jeans and travel shoes, and only discriminates against, especially those who sell him marijuana.

There were other entrepreneurs writing code in the room, and Li Jiaming didn't want people to smoke second-hand smoke, so the three of them went to the grove behind the house to smoke, smoke, and drink coffee.

Cool, Li Jiaming, who refused to smoke big/hemp, smoked a few puffs of 'Chinese' cigarettes, sat on the recliner at the back of the house and basked in the warm sunshine, and said comfortably: "Larry, we SOHU have also received venture capital, and now we are also under the pressure of capital chasing short-term interests, but the internal is unusually stable and the development is also very smooth." It is no boast to say that in the portal market in China, only SOHU itself can beat SOHU. ”

Although SOHU is listed, the internal shareholding structure is not known to ordinary people, and the landlord who just gave Li Jiaming a big / hemp smoke is curious: "HY"

Not everyone can be like Bill Gates, who can keep the company firmly under the pressure of capital. What's more, managing a company is not as simple as developing technology.

These people are still too young to see through the true face of capital, Li Jiaming said secretly: "From the day we founded SOHU, we have set up an extremely stable shareholding structure and firmly grasped the decision-making power in the hands of a few founders.

Larry, we are a technology company, and the most taboo thing is to let capital dominate the company. Yahoo invested $50 million in us and got 25% of the shares, but we only gave them 20% of the voting rights and refused to inject capital in installments, asking them to inject capital in a lump sum. ”

Sohu's arrogance, Larry has heard Li Jiaming blow, but that is a special case of companies that have made profits and have a good momentum of development, and he is concerned about how not to let capital dominate the company; And how to avoid the drawbacks that it is easy to bring to the company after not letting capital dominate the company, this is the most important reason why Larry ran out. It is of course better to control the company in his own hands than to control it in the hands of others, but Larry, who has a technical background, no management experience, and no business operations, is not so arrogant that he will definitely be able to manage the company himself.

This company must be invested, and it is worth forcing Larry's sanity to invest. Investment projects are actually not as good as investors, and no matter how good the project is, people must build it.

"Apple didn't expel Jobs in the first place, maybe it wouldn't have come to this point, they invited Jobs back today, and the iMac was born, locking users in the high-income class. We are a high-tech company, what we need is innovation in technology and concept, and the last thing we need is the management of a large company! ”

Wow, Larry and his programmer landlord looked at each other, which was different from the usual practice, and even after Yahoo went public, Yang Zhiyuan and David were relegated to the background and handed over to Tim to manage. And Cisco, isn't it also the founder who gave power to professional managers? Managing a company requires reason, and the most taboo thing is passionate decision-making!

"No, you ignore Chambers's technical background and experience, he proved his technical ability and vision before he gradually came to power. Now Silicon Valley is too impetuous, and as soon as the company goes public, it is surrounded by capital, always thinking about short-term benefits and stock prices, but ignoring the most important cornerstone of the company - technology.

Microsoft is so successful because Bill knows what kind of operating system users need – the simpler the better, so he can stay ahead of the competition in terms of user experience.

Larry, you talked to David from Yahoo about the partnership, do you think they are still ahead of the curve? Already lagging behind, right? Even the companies that started out as portals have begun to return to the technology itself, and they are still running on the road to the portal, isn't this putting the cart before the horse?

An Internet company wants to make content, and it has done more than those giant media groups of Times Group? Use your own shortcomings to compete with the strengths of others, and you will only fail! I'm willing to bet that if Yahoo goes further in the direction of content providers, they will go down when a better search company emerges on the market than them. ”

This? Li Jiaming's previous words make sense, but can they also believe the later words?

It doesn't matter whether you believe it or not, and the future will prove the correctness of this view. Taking a sip of half-warm coffee, Li Jiaming saw that the other party's expression was very strange, and continued to ambush the pen: "Larry, all entrepreneurs can probably be divided into two categories, one is to sell the company successfully and make a lot of money; The other type is people like you and me, who treat the company as their own children and want to change the world through their own efforts.

Your company's technology is great, but be careful about accepting financing, and don't give away voting rights lightly. Believe me, capital can accelerate the pace of success for a company, but only pursue profits, which is in conflict with our desire to make the company better. ”

Larry, who is not easy to give up his voting rights and is not stupid, and the landlord have strange faces, but Li Jiaming doesn't care at all.

I spend so much spit, don't you just want to invest in them? For the sake of a green knife, what is it to make people despise? If it weren't for his lack of understanding of future technological development, he would have wanted to spend 100 million yuan, take the company from Sequoia, and raise a real fat pig for the New Year.