Tian Hui's movements were fast, or Fang Zhongsheng was in a hurry.

The first thing Stanford entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley came into contact with was not venture capital, but Fang Zhongsheng, who acted as an investment intermediary.

Yuan Liang and the others waited at the hotel for a while, and Tian Hui took Fang Zhongsheng over.

"Senior Brother Fang, I have a general understanding of the situation, but after all, this is a matter of money. In this way, you make an appointment with the other party, ask them to bring the materials, and how about we meet tomorrow to talk? I'm also going to take a moment to learn about the networking side of things. ”

"It couldn't be better!" Fang Zhongsheng agreed very quickly, Yuan Liang was willing to interview, and he had room to move.

After resting in the hotel for one night, the jet lag fell, and the next day the four of them went to Fang Zhongsheng's best café.

There is no way, Zhang Shuxin wants to take it to let her make a decision as soon as possible, Feng Jia is the temporary legal counsel, and the only task Yuan Liang gave her before she came was to let her try to understand the legal rules of the US imperialists.

As for Tang Shuchen, Yuan Liang can't leave people in the hotel.

The team of four people also looks like an investor.

Coming to the café, Fang Zhongsheng introduced the two sides. Yang Zhiyuan is still a young graduate with glasses, and Fei Luo's performance is also very young.

"Before I came, Senior Brother Fang told me carefully about the information navigation you are doing, can I understand it as a software?" The World Wide Web was only launched in October, and there was no website to say that at this time.

Fei Luo looked at the yellow skin and motioned to Yang Zhiyuan to speak.

"It's kind of software, we call it a site. What we do is mainly information navigation on the network, that is, through our site, the hypertext transmission protocol on the network is assembled, made into a directory of outlets, and then displayed on the site. In this way, as soon as the user opens our site, he will be able to filter out the information he wants. Yang Zhiyuan speaks English fluently.

"What platform is your site on?" Yuan Liang's question goes straight to the core.

"It's a browser called Mosaic, which was released on the Internet not long ago, and many people in school like to surf the web through this browser."

Yuan Liang knew that this was the predecessor of Netscape. Because the NCSA of the University of Illinois owns the trademark rights to Mosaic, and the University of Illinois has transferred the technology to Telescope Entertainment, Netscape's development team had to completely rewrite the browser code.

Netscape's newly developed browser was a success as soon as it was launched, laying the foundation for Netscape's glory in the early days of the Internet.

But the good times didn't last long, Microsoft was threatened by Netscape Browser, and decisively launched Internet Explorer, with the help of Microsoft's graphics operating system, and smashed Netscape into the abyss in one fell swoop.

"In other words, your site is published through a platform built by others, and then the network information of other sites is included on the site to provide users?"

Yang Zhiyuan and Fei Luo glanced at each other, and they couldn't help but smile embarrassedly.

"That's right!"

"If you're publishing a site with the help of Mosaic, if Mosaic also publishes a related site, does it mean that you can easily lose your competitiveness?

And as far as I know, you're not the only one who does site navigation, WebCrawler, Lycos, and Infoseek are not much worse than yours in terms of navigation information. ”

There will be no concept of win-win cooperation in the capital market, and the idea of a positive game is not applicable to US imperialism. Netscape didn't develop web navigation, but Infoseek, its default search engine, was the absolute hegemon of the early search engines.

The core of web navigation is information indexing, as long as the text information on the Internet develops to a certain point, Yahoo's current navigation page that relies on manual editing of information will become a thing of the past. After all, the homepage of a website can only hold a certain amount of information.

Infoseek has given birth to a person with outstanding achievements in the field of search engines - Li Yanhong.

The two of them suddenly sank when they heard this, they didn't expect Yuan Liang to point so sharply at the core. The two were silent for a moment before Ferro spoke.

"We have an advantage in navigating our site, and now we are getting hundreds of thousands of visits per day, and Infoseek is far behind us.

Moreover, the browser itself is the bearer of the site, and Mosaic's purpose is to attract more sites to join it, rather than to do a site navigation to squeeze out users on its own product. ”

Looking at Fei Luo's pale face, Yuan Liang couldn't help but shake his head.

"You can't guess your opponent with your own thoughts, and Mosaic isn't necessarily the winner in the end. In the field of computers and the Internet, as long as the giants such as Microsoft, Intel, and Apple have not made a move, we will never know who the winner will be.

Your advantage is indeed the number of users, which is why I decided to come here after reading your information. But I found a problem, your site lacks core competencies.

Is site navigation a core competency? In my opinion, I just need to find a few coding students at Stanford, and it won't take me two months to make a better network than yours.

The only reason why you attract so many users to other content sites through the network is because you did it early. But compared to the viscosity of the network users, you are not as good as Lycos. ”

Yang Zhiyuan and Fei Luo were a little discouraged after hearing these words, and at this time, everyone present finally saw Yuan Liang's sharpness.

Fang Zhongsheng originally thought that Yuan Liang was young and from China, so he didn't know much about the scientific and technological situation of US imperialism.

Not only him, but even Tian Hui, who had been in deep contact with him before, also held the same opinion.

But Yuan Liang not only has a clear understanding of the situation of the network site, but also hits the nail on the head to say the problems that exist with Yahoo.

Compared with a few people, Zhang Shuxin has seen Yuan Liang's power in the real sense.

Internet sites have almost never been heard of in China, and Yuan Liang's breadth of knowledge has far surpassed her cognition.

Seeing that everyone suddenly became speechless, Yuan Liang also realized that he had said a little too much.

If Yahoo is measured by the eyes of later generations, it is better to ask a few people to make a search engine himself.

"My words may be a bit heavy, but as a new company, you must have a certain sense of crisis. The technical content of network navigation does not have high technical barriers and patent pools like chips, and it is easy to drown in the big waves and sand if you are not careful.

My investment is not only based on what you do, but also on the ability and courage of the entrepreneurs themselves. Investing in the right person is much better than investing in a start-up business.

So I'd like to know more about your plans for the future of the web site. ”

Yang Zhiyuan and Fei Luo, who came into contact with investment for the first time, have not yet exercised their wisdom and calmness in the face of capital, but this can save Yuan Liang a lot of trouble.