Chapter 1075: Internet Expo
Li Siwen didn't talk much, hung up the phone, got into the car, and then went to the Villa Pres Hotel in San Francisco.
Pres is one of the luxury brands in the hotel, which is not only safe but also has good service, and most importantly, the villa-style hotel is very suitable for many people.
After arriving at the hotel, Li Siwen began to discuss with Lu Shuhang how to arrange the itinerary of the Internet Expo.
Two days later, on June 1, 1995, the world-famous Internet Expo was officially opened, held at the Santa Clara International Convention Center in San Francisco's Silicon Valley, which lasted for three days, but the first day was the most grand.
In the morning, more than a dozen large screens were set up outside the international conference center, and each screen played the historical process of major companies, such as Oracle, Intel, HP, INC, IBM, etc.
What's even more amazing is that in addition to these advertising screens, there are more than a dozen booths on the convention center square, not only telephones, mobile phones, computers, game consoles and other technology products are displayed, but also robots, 3D game helmets, electronic lasers and other future products beyond the scope of cognition, making people feel as if they have entered another world as soon as they walk here.
Even the well-informed Li Siwen, seeing such a scene, can't help but sigh in his heart for the development of the old beauty.
"This is 1995, and these science and technology bigwigs in the beautiful country have such a cognition, which has to be admired." Li Siwen said as he walked.
"Yes, look at the building of the conference center, and then look at ourselves, it's really not half a star." Lu Shuhang took a few clicks with his camera, and added: "After I return to China, I have to report it well." ”
"That's right, it's good for everyone to have a long experience and realize our own shortcomings, so that we can close the gap with others." Li Siwen nodded lightly.
"You say, when will we be able to beat others? Decade? Twenty years? Or fifty years? Lu Shuhang asked suddenly.
Li Siwen suddenly fell silent, and only replied after a while: "There will always be a day." ”
"yes, there will come a day." Lu Shuhang muttered.
A group of people walked and chatted, Li Siwen and Lu Shuhang, two big men, walked in front, Zheng Jiayu, Li Fuzhen, Chen Qiuyu and Sparrow followed behind, this scene couldn't help but attract the eyes of the people around, not only because the black-haired Asians were more eye-catching, but also because these women were all beautiful.
Li Fuzhen is the eldest princess of Samsung Group, and her appearance and temperament can be described in just two words, that is, noble. Zheng Jiayu is a highly talented student who has studied in a beautiful country, and his beauty is good and his long legs are undoubted. As for Chen Qiuyu, the school flower of Pengcheng University, a proper lady of the sky. Finally, there are sparrows, even if they look backward, but who would refuse that cold feeling of being sassy?
These four women walk together, that's one word, absolutely! And Li Siwen in front of the four of them looked a little shameless, not only did he not look back at them, but he even talked about topics such as science and technology.
In this way, the group of six people quickly entered the venue, but when they passed through the door inspection, they were somewhat delayed for a while, but fortunately they entered without danger.
"Brother, is there a problem with your admission ticket?" After walking into the venue, Li Siwen asked curiously.
"My ticket belongs to the press channel, and I am the only one in our group who has a press card." Lu Shuhang replied.
"Then how do you communicate with people?" Li Siwen was a little curious.
"Of course, my friend helped say hello in advance, as long as we don't get into trouble, everything is fine." Lu Shuhang said.
"That's good, this expo is still very important to me, don't go wrong." Li Siwen whispered.
"Don't worry!" Lu Shuhang nodded.
While the two were talking, Li Fuzhen suddenly said in Korean: "Look, is that Motorola's newly developed flip phone?" ”
Li Fuzhen said a word, and several women instantly surrounded Motorola's booth, obviously the smaller mobile phone is very pleasing to women, and the label on the booth also wrote domineeringly: The smallest and lightest mobile phone in the world, weighing 88 grams, model StarTAC.
"Hello, when will this phone be released?"
A few women who are not bad for money have already begun to inquire about the release time.
Li Siwen couldn't laugh or cry when he saw this scene, and whispered: "I think the name of this expo should be changed to Science and Technology Expo, and what Internet Expo is there." ”
"As far as I know, there are more than 300 companies participating today, and there are only a few dozen companies that can really make achievements on the Internet, so the display of technology products is also part of the expo, and you should also know it." Lu Shuhang suddenly lowered his voice: "These old beauties like to be bothered." ”
"Haha!" Li Siwen couldn't help but laugh twice.
At this time, the beauties who had finished visiting walked back, and Li Fuzhen said with a little disappointed: "That mobile phone won't be released until next year." ”
"I said, Miss, don't you Samsung also make mobile phones? I heard that the year before last, you collaborated with Malaysia to come up with a mobile phone. Li Siwen said.
"We are only OEM of that product, and the sales are not good, this year we also produced mobile phones, but failed, my dad personally destroyed all the failed products, but this does not wear down Samsung's fighting spirit, my dad and the re-establishment of the mobile phone department, it is estimated that it will take less than two years to overcome some technical problems." Li Fuzhen explained seriously.
Li Siwen nodded after hearing this, although Li Jianxi, the old man, is not very good to his daughter, but he is indeed a capable person.
Then a few people chatted and walked to the depths of the venue, the first section of the place they passed was the company of the beautiful country, where Li Siwen not only saw many technology products, but also saw some very famous software companies, and at the end of the first section, Li Siwen suddenly noticed a familiar figure, it was none other than Sun Zhengyi, who was not only followed by Li Zairong and Xin Dongbin, but also Liu Zhonglie and Yang Qingfeng.
Masayoshi Son is communicating something with a yellow-haired youth at the moment, and there is a plaque behind the youth that is very eye-catching, Yahoo!
"Yahoo?" Li Siwen searched his memory in his mind, and soon he remembered that Yahoo should have just created a website, he didn't know much about the history of Yahoo, but he was very thorough about Son, and he clearly remembered that Yahoo was one of Son's most successful investments, and it was because of Yahoo that Son's assets broke through tens of billions of dollars in just a few years.
The situation at the scene is obviously that Son has taken a fancy to Yahoo and is talking to the developer about investment.
One of the reasons why people want to participate in this kind of expo is to attract investors.
"What a coincidence!" Li Siwen pursed his lips and smiled, walked over to Sun Zhengyi with steps, and said loudly as he walked: "Mr. Sun, we really have a fate!" ”
Sun Zhengyi was obviously stunned for a moment, turned his head to look at Li Siwen, and a trace of coldness appeared in his eyes in an instant, and he said sarcastically: "Datang is about to go out of business, you still have the leisure to participate in the expo?" ”
After he finished speaking, he remembered something again, looked at Liu Zhonglie and said, "Liu Dong, it's not right, I heard that you Huaxia only gave one booth place!" ”
"That's right, that spot belongs to our Liansheng." After Liu Zhonglie finished speaking, he looked at Li Siwen provocatively: "Mr. Li, I'm curious about how you got in." ”
"I'm not here to show the product, I'm here to visit." Li Siwen shrugged his shoulders: "What?" You won't even be allowed to visit, will you? And Liu Dong, I have to complain, you and I are both Chinese, but behind the scenes you help outsiders to mess with me, it's a bit unkind, right? If you want to fight with me in Huaxia, why bother to form a gang with others? I think you're a traitor if you do this. ”
Li Siwen's words were not polite at all, so angry that Liu Zhonglie gritted his teeth and said: "Li Siwen, you don't fart here, Lao Tzu is targeting you, why did you become a traitor?" Do you represent the country? ”
"I can't represent it, but you know what you've done, don't flaunt yourself while flipping Huaxia's industry."
"You ......"
"Alright, I don't have time to deal with you." Li Siwen shook his hand, unwilling to quarrel with Liu Zhonglie, he was actually worried that attracting the attention of outsiders would have an impact, and then turned his head to look at Yahoo's R&D personnel, and said with a smile in English: "Brother, does this person surnamed Sun want to invest in Yahoo just now?" ”
The young man was obviously stunned by the question, and before he could reply, Sun Zhengyi spoke: "Li Siwen, what do you mean?" ”
"If you want to invest in Yahoo, can't I think about it?" Li Siwen asked rhetorically.
"Huh." Son smiled disdainfully: "You also want to invest?" Do you have any money? The 75 million spent in Motorola should be your limit, right? ”
"Sorry, not really." After Li Siwen finished speaking, he took out a bank card from his arms and said: "Citibank's gold card, there is still some money in it, about hundreds of millions of US dollars, I can play with you." ”
Seeing this scene, Chen Qiuyu, who was standing behind, covered his mouth and chuckled, and whispered to Zheng Jiayu: "Sister Jiayu, the boss complained that you took out a lot of loans before, but I found that the card was in his hands, and it was really not soft to spend money!" Do you think that money will be spent in the blink of an eye? ”
"Huabei, anyway, the money is for him to spend." After Zheng Jiayu finished speaking, he added in a low voice: "I just like to watch him spend money." ”
"I think you're terminally ill." The sparrow with amazing ears said coldly on the side.
Zheng Jiayu didn't get angry when he heard this, but pretended to be aggrieved and glanced at the sparrow, who could only look away when he saw the other party's appearance.
Looking at the scene again, seeing the Citi Gold Card, Sun Zhengyi's face was a little ugly, although the money in the gold card may not be comparable to himself, but Li Siwen's arrogant momentum made him feel a pressure from his bones, after all, he had completely failed once at the dinner table before.
"Do you want to scare me with a card?" Son Masayoshi smiled coldly: "I don't care how much money you have in your card, I will decide the shares of Yahoo." ”
After he finished speaking, he said to the young man: "David, I just told you that I will invest 10 million US dollars in Yahoo in the early stage and get 15% of Yahoo's shares, but now I have changed my mind, I am ready to directly invest 50 million US dollars in the early stage, and Yahoo only needs to transfer 30% of my shares." ”
The young man was David Ferro, one of the founders of Yahoo, and when he heard Son Masayoshi's offer, his face was naturally full of joy, and just as he wanted to say something, Li Siwen said on the side: "Friend, if you don't mind, I want to come up with a price for you to hear, okay?" By the way, my name is Li Siwen, the founder of Datang Technology. ”
"Datang Technology? I know you, the Oriental manufacturer that produces MP3s, right? Your design is great, I love it. David gave a thumbs up to Li Siwen.
"That's right, it's me, I'm very interested in your website, I hope you don't refuse my good intentions." Li Siwen smiled.
David also smiled when he heard Li Siwen's words, but said calmly: "Mr. Li, in fact, I have heard it just now, there are some contradictions between you and Mr. Sun, so I will join this competition, I know that this can raise the price of investment, but we attract investment not for money, but to make the website better."
I have reached a consensus with Mr. Sun, who appreciates our creativity very much, and I think Yahoo can be more helpful after introducing Mr. Sun's investment, so I can only say sorry to you. ”
After David finished saying this, Sun Zhengyi on the side laughed loudly and mocked at Li Siwen: "Li Siwen, did you encounter a stone this time?" Do you really think that everything can be solved by money? Although the MP3 you invented is good, you are a stunned young man in the Internet field, do you know .com? Do you know the portal? ”
After Sun Zhengyi finished speaking, Liu Zhonglie also smiled and said: "Mr. Li, I advise you to stay where you go, don't be embarrassed here." ”
The two finally seized the opportunity, and the sarcastic voice was naturally not small, which also attracted the surrounding visitors to surround them, pointing and whispering.
Maybe it was because he saw more and more people gathering, David also hurriedly reminded: "Mr. Li, I'm sorry, we will have a chance to cooperate." ”
David thought that Li Siwen didn't understand anything, just to be angry, so he wanted to persuade the other party to give up earlier, at the same time, Li Fuzhen also quietly walked to Li Siwen's side and reminded in a low voice: "These people who are engaged in science and technology are more strange, sometimes they can be bought without money, while there are few people now, I think it's better to forget it!" ”
Never mind? You let a big guy from decades later?.com? Internet? Portal? Lao Tzu really wants to say, have you seen Wow Ga?
This may be Li Siwen's truest inner monologue at this moment, looking at the proud Sun Zhengyi and Liu Zhonglie in front of him, he feels that the other party has stretched his face in front of him, and he can't fight if he wants to.