Chapter 14: Eccentricity
The next day, after Hugo held a morning meeting with everyone in the company, he had a triumvirate meeting with Page and Brin, and Hugo began to explain the future strategy in a bullish manner, but it was definitely not nonsense, anyway, Page and Bryn thought it was always good to do the foreshadowing early.
Page and Brin listened to Hugo's detailed conversation, and finally agreed to Hugo's request, resigned as CEO of Google, established the European division, and became the head of the European division.
But it is obviously unrealistic to say that it is just leaving, because then something happened, and this event was actually something that Hugo knew would happen, and that was the cooperation between Yahoo and Google.
Because he knew, so he had been waiting, in this life Google under his planning, the popularity is much louder than the previous life, but it has not ushered in the favor of Yahoo, which is very heartwarming Hugo.
Needless to say, how good Yahoo is now, they are the number one company in the Internet era, the portal and the search engine are excellent, of course their search engine will not be as good as the current Google, otherwise they would not have found Google.
Just when Hugo couldn't wait and was going to leave it to Page and Brin to deal with, Yahoo finally extended an olive branch, Yahoo is now worth nearly $40 billion, and the newly established Google, hehe, is still a money-losing company, but the market value has also increased, but compared with Yahoo, it is definitely a contrast between ants and elephants.
Later, Google's Big Three and Yahoo's founder, Yang Zhiyuan, met many times, and Yahoo's attitude was to buy Google outright at first, which was their ultimate goal at that time.
Hugo listened to it, hehe, just kidding! If you buy it, where will I get rich?!
Page and Brin are also very ambitious people, and they don't agree with this plan, and the acquisition is equivalent to three people taking a sum of money each, which is far from their ambitions.
It is often said that it is easy for large companies to crush small companies, but it may not be so easy in such an environment as the Internet, because the technology is a fact, and the Google engine design is better, but it is a big deal that there is no ability to fight against Yahoo for the time being, but if the development strategy is appropriate, and Yahoo itself does not have the ability to improve its own technology, then Google will turn over sooner or later.
Hugo knew that Apple was not miserable, but then it turned over, and it was the capital to turn over, and they continued to innovate their own technology, if they were complacent, of course, there was no possibility of turning over.
Google can't occupy a big market now, but it is not ruled out that one day it will gradually encroach on Yahoo's market with a small and large one, and the market for Yahoo's search engine is only more than 30 percent, and Google's space is still there.
Yahoo's giants, although they value Google's technology a little, but they are not fully aware of their own shortcomings, they are the leaders of the Internet after all, since they cannot negotiate an acquisition, when Page proposed another way of working together, Yahoo bargained and agreed.
Yahoo's search engine is essentially a backward way of searching, relying on human-edited directories to search, while Google, developed by Page and Brin, uses algorithms to crawl website keywords.
For a simple example, the website searched by the Yahoo engine is equivalent to searching their dictionary, this dictionary is edited by Yahoo itself, in the United States, where the Internet is developing rapidly, there are many websites popping up every day, Yahoo naturally cannot compile all the websites into their own dictionaries, although they are working hard, but this is a rather expensive and manpower-consuming thing, and Google is equivalent to grabbing keywords in the network, no matter when you are established, as long as there are words, Google's search engine list will have, This is undoubtedly a more time-saving, labor-saving, convenient and faster way.
Yahoo started using Google's search engine, and this step started, and Google's road to making money really began, because advertising and other things were coming soon!
Seriously, Hugo, as a latecomer, really doesn't understand why Yahoo did this, why did it agree to cooperate with Google, in fact, if they are smart, they have time to improve their search services, and they can rely on their own position to make their search engine stronger!
How did he know that Yahoo's choice was not something that he could know later, after all, search engines seemed to be a small road at the time, and Yahoo was more committed to making ecological portals, email services, and so on.
No one could have imagined that Google would later develop into a giant Internet company!
Reaching a cooperation agreement with Yahoo, Google can use Yahoo's market for comprehensive promotion, undoubtedly occupy a big bargain, Hugo is aware of the later, the cooperation between the two sides was terminated in 2004, because Yahoo also realized the threat of Google, the two sides fought in the court three lily, Yahoo also acquired another search engine company, but the already growing Google no longer has to worry about Yahoo!
"From now on, we will be on a sunny road!" Hugo said this at the company's all-staff meeting.
There was a round of applause below, Page and Brin looked at Hugo with great admiration, because the plan for cooperation was put forward by Hugo, and Hugo told them in detail that the key to this cooperation was just to use Yahoo to promote, and Hugo Chengtian said that the promotion and promotion had completely conquered the two.
After the cooperation with Yahoo, some things were also advanced, and the famous investment capital Sequoia Capital took a fancy to Google and hoped to invest in Google, which is still a private enterprise so far.
When this investment intention was sent to Hugo, he was a little embarrassed, in fact, he couldn't have imagined that such a big investment company would take a fancy to them so soon, this group of people is really fucking vampires, and the investment company is a vampire in his eyes, because he knows what the future of the company will be, and he takes it for granted that they are exploiters, but at the time it was actually a venture capital!
Hugo knew the history of Google earlier, knew that to attract investment, he never intended to put his eggs in the basket of Google, he had a lot of plans to make money, and he was reluctant to use all the money on Google, and now that the investment has really arrived, Hugo can't help but want to refuse, what will happen?!
Page and Brin are very happy to see this investment, Hugo's money does not want to come out again, and it cannot go against everyone's wishes, so this investment is also negotiated, of course, Hugo's share ratio has also decreased, but he, Page, and Brin together still have the most shares, Yahoo and Sequoia Capital and others are still in a weak position.
After finishing these things, it was already May of '99, and Hugo had completed the procedures for taking a leave of absence and returned to Italy.
As for the matter of running the team, the current progress of Victor is as follows, completing the name registration, signing an agreement to lease the stadium with Trapani Football Club and the City Hall behind his back (in other words, this City Hall is really bad enough, seeing the money, he actually signed a loan agreement with Victor behind his back, you must know that Victor's current team has only two people, of course, this is with the mayor Hugo and Victor's uncle Enzo. Morek has a lot to do with it), and none of the players were recruited, which shows that Victor's efficiency is not ordinarily poor.
Groggily getting up from his bed, Hugo couldn't help but smile bitterly, Lao Tzu is a sin, I have crossed over, and it is so easy to get some money to make me so complicated! But thinking about the upcoming recruitment of players today, Hugo is full of energy, haha, football Lao Tzu can also play.
He also didn't know when he fell in love with football, maybe because he got the first pot of gold on it, in short, he was obviously more interested in this football than in work, back in Italy, Hugo sent out all the teams that followed him, well, there are not many people in this team, just three people, Hugo is in charge of the overall situation, another person is in charge of business, and the other is technical support. Hugo sent them all out, Erwin, who was in charge of business, recruited people, consulted lawyers, and carried out the establishment of the Italian company, while Duncan, who was in charge of technology, was in charge of setting up the relevant structure, and Hugo was now doing nothing.
Instead, I concentrated on my own football!
When he returned home, the seven aunts and eight aunts all came to see him, and he didn't forget to say to his grandfather that your grandson is amazing, and he has returned to his hometown to set up a company, can you find some way to let his own children and nephews enter the new company, in the eyes of these people, it seems that Hugo's company is a family business.
"Gigi is not a family business, he is now establishing the Italian branch of Google in the United States, you guys, you don't have to make trouble for him, if anyone dares to make trouble, don't blame me for turning my face and not recognizing people!" Grandpa solemnly admonished all his relatives.
Hugo was quite speechless, what can you do with this group of people, brother, this is a technology company, do you understand?!
In the face of his grandfather, Hugo has to brag, he actually wants to be a low-key rich man, but at present he also wants to make a sum of money from the family for the construction of the team, although it is for fun, but Hugo decided not to treat the players who participated in the team, this is not good! We are a non-professional team, but we are also a company, and we should give everyone some benefits, otherwise who will support me!
Grandpa Pasilio agreed vaguely, promising to give a sponsorship to the new team every season!
Victor said resentfully: "I see that grandpa is really too partial to you, I have said many times that I have not been able to move, you come back, you can say move him with a few farts!" I don't think I'm his own grandson! ”
"Stinky boy! What did you say?! "Hugo's uncle Giovanni smashed a chestnut on Victor's head!
"Ah, Dad... Father! Hmph, why am I not telling the truth, grandpa always favors Hugo! Victor cried out as he ran away with his head in his hands.
"If you have the ability to do something serious, won't your grandfather support you! Look at how I gave birth to a son like you, who doesn't learn and doesn't know how to do it, and is idle all day long! Alas, you will just eat and wait for death in this life! Giovanni scolded with hatred.
Hugo looked at it with a smile on the side, not at all persuading!
Victor in the distance muttered, "Oh, he's just doing the team, I'm not doing it?!" Distinct eccentricity! ”