"Mr. Zhou?" Yang Zhihe tidied up his clothes a little crampedly, stretched out his hand and said, "I'm very happy to see you, I've admired you for a long time." ”

Zhou Shuo stood in front of the building and looked at this Chinese Taiwanese carefully. Yang Zhihe is actually quite ugly, with small eyes, a garlic nose, and a shoehorn face. But when he stands in front of you, a sense of individuality fills his body. From his eyes, he could see that this was a person with ideas. All kinds of whimsy and wisdom are stored in his brain, and it is easy to ignore his appearance and realize that he is so different.

"Where, I am also eager for Mr. Yang." Zhou Shuo clasped his hands tightly together and said with a smile: "Yahoo is a hot topic on the Internet now, and I have long wanted to see your true face." ”

"Mr. Zhou is too polite." Yang Zhihe smiled shyly, welcomed Zhou Shuo into the office building, and said with a sigh as he walked: "If it weren't for the million dollars you invested last year, Mr. Zhou, I wouldn't have decided to found Yahoo so quickly." ”

"I can't afford to make a profit, so I'm counting on Yahoo to help me earn back ten or a hundred times the profit one day." Zhou Shuo smiled and joked with Yang Zhihe.

"I have faith in Yahoo that this day will not be too far away." Yang Zhihe nodded vigorously and said eagerly.

Yahoo's rented office seems to be relatively remote, and the two of them have walked a short distance and still haven't reached their destination.

Zhou Shuo couldn't wait to walk to the place, and after laughing a few words, he turned to the topic, and said with a straight face: "Mr. Yang, I came this time for two purposes. ”

He held out two fingers. Then one by one, he bent down and said, "First of all, I need to examine the effect of my previous investment. Second. I'm going to consider whether to make a second investment totaling $10 million. ”

"Ten million!" Yang Zhihe almost didn't faint, and half a year ago he was just a poor student in the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Where did you think about your own little fight after half a year. You can get an investment of 10 million dollars!

Yang Zhihe walked back and forth excitedly, looking very excited. He keenly felt that this was a moment that would change the fate of his life.

Zhou Shuo nodded affirmatively, and comforted with a smile: "Mr. Yang doesn't need to be so excited, I personally am very confident in Yahoo's results." However, whether I will invest or not depends on whether Yahoo can meet my requirements. ”

Yang Zhihe was shocked for a while, and after recovering his emotions, he said: "Okay, then I'll sort out the current company's data first." ”

"No need." Zhou Shuo stretched out his hand to stop him and said, "I think the scene should be more illustrative, can I go directly to the technical department to check it out on the spot?" ”

"Absolutely." Yang Zhihe hesitated. Then he said, "But you'd better wait, I'll clean up first." ”

Zhou Shuo listened, and Ha Lu Ha Da Lu smiled: "No need, everyone is a man, I can imagine what situation will be faced." ”

The so-called Yahoo in 1995 truly accurately expressed the realistic meaning of "you never know whether the person on the other side of the Internet is a dog or a dog".

I'm afraid no one would have imagined what was behind this website that is making a name for itself on the Internet. In the minds of most people, high-tech companies should sit in an office with a few clean windows. Drinking coffee, blowing air conditioning, a group of people who work in Youzai. However, the real vast majority of entrepreneurs start out in garages and basements. It's even your own bedroom.

When Zhou Shuo first stepped into Yahoo's office, it was really a mess. Yang Zhihe and his little friend David. Ferro sat in a small room, the server fan humming and it was a headache. The answering machine rings every minute. Webmasters who apply to submit website data will leave their contact details and personal information.

In addition to their busy work, their working conditions are not complimentary. Finished pizza boxes are piled up haphazardly on the table. Almost formed a hill. Golf clubs lay casually in corners, and the telephone was thrown on the floor – its original location is now a pile of dirty laundry. Although it's obviously daylight now. But the whole room was still dark.

This situation, as a technician Zhou Shuo, is simply too clear, the day and night caused by the intense research work are reversed, and there is no distinction between black and white, and people will be in a state of photophobia like this.

"This is my partner, David. Filo. David, this is our investor, Mr. Joy from China. Yang Zhihe patted David. Ferro's shoulder, introduced to the two of them.

David. Fei Luo looked very reserved and introverted, nodded to Zhou Shuo, and then turned around again and continued to stare at the computer.

"Sorry, David, he's not very good at communicating with people." Yang Zhi moved his chair and said with some embarrassment: "I'm very sorry Mr. Zhou, there are no extra chairs here." You came so suddenly, we didn't prepare for anything. ”

Zhou Shuo looked at Yang Zhihe, who was still immature, and laughed sincerely. If it weren't for the fact that I didn't have a camera at hand, I really wanted to take a picture of him like this. Presumably, ten or twenty years later, tens of millions of dollars can be extorted from this photo.

Zhou Shuo sat down unrelentingly, he first waved his hand, looked around and said indifferently: "You don't need to deliberately prepare anything, but I still hope that after Yahoo gets the investment, at least a cleaner can be hired." A clean and tidy working environment and normal work and rest are the guarantee of work efficiency. ”

"Of course." Yang Zhihe nodded and promised: "Yahoo's current funds are too tight, and we will formalize the company when it becomes profitable." ”

"That's good." Zhou Shuo smiled and said, "But seeing you like this now, I feel relieved." This shows that my investment is not being enjoyed, but being spent where it should be. ”

"Of course!" When Yang Zhihe talked about this topic, he couldn't help but be a little proud: "Yahoo currently includes information on more than 18,000 websites, and the number of registered users has reached 5.2 million. Provides website indexing, e-mail, and news services. ”

"Very good!" Zhou Shuo exclaimed: "I don't think there is currently any network index on the Internet that can achieve such results as yours." ”

"There is still a blank in the market in this regard!" Yang Zhihe said eloquently: "Not to mention that they are slightly worse than us, let's just say that there are only five websites that provide Internet indexing services. Yahoo was the first to introduce full-text search, which is far ahead of our competitors. ”

Zhou Shuo nodded affirmatively at first, and then asked, "So, what about Yahoo's current financial expenditure and income?" ”

When it comes to financial issues, Yang Zhihe is like a chicken whose neck has been choked, and his previous passion suddenly disappears. He cowardly said: "At present, Yahoo's profit is mainly based on advertising revenue. In the first quarter of this year, the advertising business reached $300,000. In terms of costs, due to the rapid increase in business, we have purchased a lot of equipment, and the total expenditure has reached US$500,000. ”

"That is, the first quarter was actually a loss of $200,000?" Zhou Shuo's head shook like a rattle, and said, "It's too little, how can this speed work?" ”

Yang Zhihe blushed and said uneasily: "The development of our advertising business is relatively slow, and we will work hard to expand the profitability of the website in the future." ”

Zhou Shuo was stunned, and said with a smile: "I'm not saying that your advertising profits are small, but that you lose too little!" ”

"Loss...... Too little? Yang Zhihe found that his head was a little confused, how could any investor feel that the investment object lost too little?

Zhou Shuo said as a matter of course: "Of course, you also said before that the current search website is still a blank in the market. At this time, don't think about the cost, but to occupy the market as quickly as possible. We must try our best to maintain the first-mover advantage, and as long as the market grows, we will naturally be able to generate profits with our strategic advantages. The premature commercialization of the website can only lead to a poor user experience and give latecomers a chance to surpass! ”

"Mr. Zhou's consideration is not wrong." Yang Zhihe swallowed his saliva and said cautiously: "However, our funds are too tight, and a large part of the expenditure is used to purchase equipment and data services, which are precipitated as fixed costs." The rest of the money is just enough to pay for our T3 service. ”

"T3?" Zhou Shuo frowned and said, "Is the bandwidth enough?" ”

The so-called T3 private line is a broadband technology used in the United States in the early days of the Internet. At this time, the private line generally refers to the ISDN private line technology, which has two 64Kbps data lanes. In order to use high-speed networks, some commercial organizations will apply for T1, T2, and T3 special lines. The lowest T1 private line can provide 24 data lanes at 64Kbps, which is 1.5Mbps of bandwidth. The highest-speed T3 private line is equivalent to 28 T1 private lines, which can provide 45Mbps bandwidth.

Yang Zhihe sighed, shook his head and said: "Compared with the number of Yahoo users, the bandwidth is simply not enough, which often causes network congestion. Even so, the cost of the T3 line is $50,000 a month, and we can't afford more. ”

Zhou Shuo blinked when he heard this, and said as if he suddenly remembered: "In this case, why don't you move Yahoo's servers to Seattle?" My six-eared software company has just recently installed a 10G fiber optic line, which should be enough for Yahoo to use. ”

“10——10G！” Yang Zhihe grew his mouth and looked at Zhou Shuo in disbelief. (To be continued......)