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Chapter 116 Inadvertently planting willows and willows

America's year-end bonus, which is basically a "Christmas bonus," is given out each year before Christmas.

However, this thing is not as good as expected. Less than 50% of the companies in the entire America issue year-end bonuses. These year-end bonuses are basically divided by the management. More than [-]% of the annual salary.

As for ordinary employees, it is basically equivalent to 3% of the entire annual salary. Some companies even directly use clothes, fruit baskets, and shopping coupons as rewards. As for executives, of course they are all real dollars or stocks that can be directly cashed out. .

Moreover, the wave of year-end awards is still led by the emerging electronic technology and Internet industries. Although many companies in the technology industry do not make money, they are in a mess, and they can issue equity awards and year-end bonuses.

Because the money is coming in so fast, think about Yahoo, which now has less than [-] employees, the valuation is already hundreds of millions of dollars, and the venture capital has also taken hundreds of millions of dollars.

Even Yahoo's founders and management are dedicated to the public. Most of the money brought by Softbank and other venture capital is used to buy servers, advertise, acquire technology, and recruit technology experts. Hundreds of people, raise wages and salaries, pay tens of thousands, 10,000+ dollars to get bonuses, subsidies, etc., isn’t it too much? !
Why are all the geniuses in America crowding into the Internet industry now, because it is so profitable. If you develop a website, as long as you are a little famous, you can sell it for millions of dollars.

Even if Internet companies don’t make money, the money the founders get from venture capital is enough to buy villas, sports cars and the like.

This year is no exception. Although the Internet in America, except for a few companies, most of them are still losing money, but the year-end bonus of each Internet company is higher than that of the other, especially those founders and executives. , The year-end bonus basically falls into their pockets.

On Song Yang's side, there will definitely not be such a set of gameplay, and there is no need for it. The industry in Song Yang's hands is basically Song Yang's major shareholder. It’s just left-handed and right-handed. Unless you don’t want to play anymore, you can learn how the Wall Street gang plays, give yourself a huge bonus, and then sell all the businesses that can be sold, and finally pass the mess to others.

Looking at Marcus, Song Yang said, "This year's year-end bonuses are mainly for management and technical personnel. Christmas bonuses are paid at 15% of their annual salary, and ordinary employees are paid at 8%. The bonus is less than one If the monthly salary is lower than the monthly salary, an extra month’s average salary will be paid!"

We all know that technology companies should focus on technology and should give higher treatment to technical personnel, but with the current "professional manager" system in America, no matter what they do, it is impossible to bypass these people.

What Song Yang can do is to try his best to bring the technical personnel in his hands to the same level as the management, and implement special rewards for the technical experts, but it is basically impossible to completely ignore those executives. These professional managers People may not do much, but bad things are much easier.

Take a look at Wang An Company, and the Disney family, and you will understand how they were spoiled by those professional managers. Within a year or two, a giant with billions of dollars in revenue will be heavily in debt. It would be strange if there were no ghosts.

Now the management and executives of Double-click and Hotmail, of course, have not yet reached the level of giants such as Disney, IBM, Apple, and Cisco, which can confront the founders and even drive them away.

Song Yang needs to be on guard against one or two, but it is impossible to be on guard everywhere, and it is impossible to be too harsh on those executives. Bonuses, equity rewards and the like are indispensable. Double-click and other companies, after all, need those professional managers to manage. It is impossible for Song Yang to hold on to everything.

After talking to Marcus, Song Yang said to Irene, "You and Dana should get in touch. Before Christmas, prepare gifts and donations, and let Double-Click Company cooperate with the Bruno Foundation to share those gifts together. , charitable fund donated to "needs"

people! "

Like other places in the world, America's face project is also done quite slippery.

Every festival, especially Christmas, not to mention those giant companies, as long as there are some well-known companies, they will start doing charity, donating various items to various charitable departments, slums, adoption agencies, nursing homes, etc.

Of course, there are also those congressmen who are also indispensable for such occasions. Many congressmen will hold dinner parties, charity parties and the like on such occasions. For charity, as for where the money goes, it is not for those who need to pay for it.

Song Yang's side is no exception. In addition to paying for the school in Houston, Adrian and others, Song Yang wants to make this place a lair in San Jose. Local schools, congressmen, prosecutors, etc. Song Yang also needs support from directors, TV media people, etc. Christmas is a large-scale opportunity to make connections, and of course he must pay a fortune.

Irene kept Song Yang's words in her heart, "I will make arrangements, and contact a few congressmen from San Jose, and we will meet together at that time!"

Now Irene has become more and more proficient in dealing with these matters. Greg, who was sitting on the side, looked at Irene who was being used more and more by Song Yang, with a worried expression on his face. I have always been worried about Erin...

Everyone else was busy, and only Marcus and Gallo were left in Song Yang's office.

"Marcus, in a few days, you and I will go to America Telecom's project site!" Song Yang explained to Marcus.

Marcus, who was packing his things, was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then nodded in response, "I see!"

Taking Marcus to America Telecom was nothing more than checking the accounts. Song Yang did not distrust Eric and others who managed the America Telecom project, but Song Yang could not be too careful if it involved three projects worth more than $[-] million. .

"Song, Daana mentioned you yesterday, will you go back to Houston this Christmas?"

After seeing that everyone else had left, Gallo yawned and asked Song Yang. For Gallo, who had the title of logistics manager, he had no chance to speak at the meeting just now, and he felt faint. Going to sleep, Gallo felt that the Blackwater company was more refreshing for him.

Prince has begun to recruit a group of mercenaries, and through family channels, he just brought in a few M109 self-propelled howitzers from General Dynamics as training equipment. Gallo has always wanted to try his hand.

"I'll try my best. I'll return to Houston when I'm done here!" Song Yang said uncertainly. Whether he can return to Houston depends on whether he can live a stable life before Christmas, and whether Microsoft and Netscape will mess up. come out.

Song Yang, Gallo, and Marcus quietly left San Jose, and then rushed to America Telecom's current construction site. America Telecom's project is now about to pass through Indiana and head to the next construction site.

There are a lot of media in America. Naturally, at the end of the year, various annual summaries and rankings are also released. After all, there is no comparison. !

When Song Yang was still turning the corner, the Oakland Tribune, one of the four major newspapers in Silicon Valley, took the lead and combined with other newspapers to rank the "Top Ten Internet Events in America in 1995".

The number one, of course, is the undisputed listing of Netscape, which kicked off a frenzy of Internet companies going public and brought the Internet into a new era. No one doubts this.

But Song Yang's name appeared twice in the other top ten incidents, which was comparable to Mark Anderson's appearance frequency, far exceeding the two Yahoo chiefs and AOL president Keith.

Anderson's name, in this ranking of the top ten events, respectively appeared in the first and second, in addition to the listing, it is the browser war between Netscape and Microsoft.

The third place is Song Yang's "Internet Advertisement". The Auckland Tribune and other media believe that the first webpage advertisement on the Internet launched by the double-click company established by Song Yang will completely affect the global Internet in the future. It will allow Internet companies to "see Get up" to make money!
Song Yang's name also appeared in No.8 of the top ten events. The appearance of Hotmail brought America into the era of e-mail office in advance. The impact seems to be small, but in fact it has completely affected tens of millions of people around the world. People's office habits, Internet office began to really appear.

Regarding Song Yang's listing, there are many disputes. After all, whether it is "Internet advertising" or "e-mail", it seems that it is not as shocking as Netscape. As for the impact, it cannot be seen immediately.

The reason for the controversy is that this ranking is related to the influence of the people on the list in the American Internet, and it can also be said to be the power list of the American Internet.

Mark Anderson ranked first on the Internet, and no one objected to it. Netscape ordered the Internet to follow, but Song Yang was ranked second, even surpassing AOL President Keith, which made many people have objections.

Many people think that Song Yang is not worthy of the name. No matter how you look at it, compared to double-click, the market value of Hotmail mailbox, and the net worth, Song Yang can't be ranked second. Song Yang, who just debuted this year, suddenly surpassed all the seniors , ranked second on the American Internet power list, naturally many people have opinions.

And at this moment, a piece of news that had nothing to do with the Internet, but now has something to do with it, came out from across the ocean, appeared in America, and quickly went viral.

In the latest issue of the Oxford Dictionary of England, the entry SPAM representing junk e-mail has been added, and it has been included in the latest issue of the Oxford Dictionary!
This is the first time that the Internet industry has been included in the Oxford dictionary because of the related words created by the Internet. Whether the word is good or derogatory, it represents the influence of the Internet at the moment and has broken through traditional industries.

And just after this news reached America, the title of "King of Internet Advertising" was placed on Song Yang's head!
(End of this chapter)