Back to 1995

During this trip to San Jose, Ballmer can be said to have made a lot of money. After staying in San Jose for a few days, he returned to Seattle.

"The world's largest Internet taxi-hailing company, Uber won the A round of joint venture capital from Microsoft and Deutsche Bank Investment Bank!"

At this time, it was reported in Silicon Valley that Uber had obtained a huge venture capital investment of 24 billion US dollars jointly invested by Microsoft and Deutsche Bank Investment Bank. As soon as the news came out, it caused a sensation in the entire Silicon Valley and the American technology industry!

It has been a year and a half since Uber was founded, but the real debut time was full of efforts and calculations, and it did not exceed three months. It took less than three months for a product to go online, and the valuation broke 120 billion dollars. This kind of madness, even if It never happened during the most frenetic period of the Internet.

Before, the outside world still had doubts about KPCB and Sequoia's two major venture capitals, and Uber's valuation of more than US$40 billion. They thought that this pair of Silicon Valley twin stars might not be hype. When Jinbaiyin's $24 billion venture capital was valued at over $120 billion, any doubts disappeared.

Even Sequoia's investment in the two major Silicon Valley venture capital giants is somewhat broken. It regrets that it did not invest in Uber in advance. Other Silicon Valley venture capital and Wall Street institutions, not to mention, will regret it now.

"From bankruptcy, to being worth more than $30 billion, from being one step away from the homeless, to being on the American Rich List, Kalanick has staged a gorgeous counterattack!"

In the media, for a while, Uber and Kalanick were all blown up. All kinds of praises were put on Kalanick, just like the media used to Song Yang, Mark Anderson, Yang Zhiyuan, etc. People flatter people in general.

As for, when the Scour music website went bankrupt, the media scolded Kalanick. Words such as "thief" and "liar" were all scolded by the media, but now they seem to have forgotten it. Lannick's flattery.

And when the media touted Uber and Kalanick and exaggerated that the era of Internet taxi-hailing is coming, a large number of Internet taxi-hailing companies popped up in Silicon Valley.

Companies in Silicon Valley are never willing to miss hot spots and follow the trend. Whether it is a large company or a small company, if there is a trend, it is really hard to follow!
Uber has only been online for a long time, and it has received such a large amount of venture capital and valuation. How can other companies not be jealous, and who would not want to follow suit.

Since the media began to report and received huge venture capital, companies that followed Uber began to emerge one after another, and even Internet taxi companies emerged in overseas markets.

The entire Internet taxi-hailing industry became chaotic for a while, but those who followed suit could not threaten Uber's status in the short term. Even if they wanted to launch a taxi-hailing software, they copied Uber's code and design directly, and then changed their skins to go online. That would take months!

In the next six months, Uber is still in an absolute advantage. Coupled with the huge amount of money in hand, it can continue to recruit troops, recruit more Uber drivers, and attract more Uber users.

Around Christmas, other Internet taxi-hailing software will probably be launched one after another. By then, it will be the Internet taxi-hailing industry. In order to rob drivers and users, all major taxi-hailing companies will desperately burn money. Whoever pays more dollars can have the last laugh and become the final winner, and in the process, the tragic battle of burning money will kill those traditional taxi companies first!

The fight between gods and gods will bring disaster to Chi Yu. Do traditional taxis dare to send money to users for taxis? Internet taxi companies dare, traditional taxi companies dare not have orders, and force drivers to subsidize thousands of dollars a month? Internet taxi companies dare to wait until they die After leaving the traditional taxi company, Uber will compete with other peers. The last one can get the entire taxi market, and then start cutting leeks.

The wool comes from the sheep. If Uber finally becomes the winner of this money-burning war, it will definitely earn back the lost money, even the principal and interest. At that time, those who take advantage of it will have to be cut off A crop of leeks...

But those are things that will happen in the future. Now all major Silicon Valley companies are jealous of Uber. A large number of companies are preparing to follow Uber. Countless Silicon Valley venture capital and Wall Street institutions are also ready to move. Praising Song Yang has created a new outlet for Silicon Valley. come out.

As for those who envy Uber, let alone Elizabeth Holmes, who has always been good at controlling emotions in Theranos, can't help it now.

"That guy, who is willing to spend money on Uber, is not willing to serve as a director of Theranos Company. Theranos is not as good as Uber..."

"President Holmes!"

A voice came out, then got up, glanced outside Elizabeth Holmes' office, and then closed the door.

"This kind of talk cannot be discussed in the company. Even without the support of Bruno Song, Theranos Company can still succeed!"

As the chief operating officer of Theranos Corporation, Balwani put his hand on Holmes' cheek with a bit of doting.

Elizabeth Holmes took a deep breath. She knew that she had lost her composure, but jealousy really changed people's faces, even if she was no exception.

Thinking about how long her company, Theranos, has been established, the current valuation is less than a few billion dollars, which seems to be a lot, but Uber, which debuted later than Theranos, the result is estimated It's worth breaking tens of billions of dollars in one move, and also got 24 billion dollars in venture capital!
There is no harm if there is no comparison, and Holmes doesn't want to lose his composure, but how many people can not lose their composure when they see the news about Uber? !
"Bruno Song must never be mentioned in front of other people. As long as Theranos is listed, one day he will regret missing Theranos!"

Balwani, who is now in a relationship with the two of them, told Elizabeth Holmes that his experience is much more sophisticated than Holmes, so he naturally understands that Holmes is angry because Song Yang does not support Theranos anger.

But this kind of anger is useless in front of Song Yang. Even if people know that Holmes is dissatisfied with Song Yang, it will be even worse. Those investors will stay away from Theranos Company, and no one will Willing to be the enemy of the richest man in America!
"I know!"

Holmes glanced at the news about Uber, then angrily stuffed all the newspapers into the trash can.

The performance of Uber once again proves how powerful the most powerful Bruno gang is in Silicon Valley and even now in the technology industry of America. It seems to be as easy as eating and drinking to concoct a giant company with tens of billions of dollars. These Bruno gangs A company in the gang camp needs resources and resources, as well as the support of public opinion and technology giants. This has given countless people the illusion that companies with a market value of tens of billions of dollars are at their fingertips.

But in fact, looking at non-Bruno gang companies, even companies like Theranos that have received the support of a large number of powerful people, but it is still extremely difficult to sprint to a market value of tens of billions of dollars, Holmes Back then, she rushed to visit Song Yang's wharf, but she was still not accepted, how could she not be angry!

But no matter how angry, Holmes only dared to complain a few words, but did not dare to play any tricks. Behind her was a lot of support from Amerika, but it was still easy for Song Yang to kill Theranos Company. The big shots can keep her, but they may not be able to keep Theranos.

On the private plane flying from San Jose to Seattle, Ballmer, who returned from the big victory this time, was studying Li Daitao's stiff plan, choosing which person from Microsoft to send to Nokia as an undercover agent.

Already ready to swallow Nokia, and looking at the cooperation between the two sides at this time, Ballmer's mentality is completely different. It is no longer about how many Nokia phones equipped with Microsoft's WP system can be sold, but what method can be used. Stabbing Nokia in the back, limping Nokia all of a sudden, otherwise it may not be able to force it to sell itself.

After thinking for a long time, Ballmer felt that it was better not to upgrade the Nokia machine subsystem. What would happen if the original Nokia model, which may be a big hit, used an old system and could not be upgraded? !

Then Microsoft will definitely be scolded, but the more unlucky one is probably Nokia. This trick kills one thousand enemies and hurts eight hundred. If Microsoft can afford it, can Nokia afford it? !

What's more, even if Microsoft's WP system crashes, Song Yang also promised Ballmer that Nokia, which was acquired by Microsoft, can be equipped with Symbian system. Of course, Ballmer knows that this move is not good for Microsoft.

But so what, as long as he allows Microsoft to acquire Nokia, he has already made a profit and can make Microsoft's stock price soar. Work in the position of the head of the family for a lifetime, even Bill Gates can't do it for a lifetime, let alone him, he might be kicked out one day. Ballmer knows this, so he naturally chooses the most direct and cost-effective the way.

Looking at the large group of executives at Microsoft, Ballmer swiped his finger on the list, and finally stopped on a name, the head of Microsoft's software department... Elop!

Elop's name is big enough. His software department is also one of the most profitable departments of Microsoft. What Nokia lacks most is undoubtedly software and systems. Sending Elop to Nokia seems to be a professional Matched.

Of course, if you want Elop to become the president of Nokia, you must do some back-up work to build momentum for Elop and put pressure on Nokia.

Ballmer is a vigorous and decisive person. He picked up the satellite phone on the plane and made a direct call, "Let Elop, come and see me, I will see him when I get off the plane!"

"Little Alan Bell, come here!"

In San Jose Manor, Song Yang teased Alan Bell, who had just learned to walk. Hearing Song Yang’s voice, Alan Bell threw away diamonds, gems, beads, sculptures, Lego and other toys in his hands, shaking He got up from the arms of Dana who was taking care of him, and ran towards Song Yang in a stumbling manner.