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Chapter 199 Ignition
Seeing Irene, who still wanted to keep her character as a strong woman at this time, Song Yang turned over, and amid Irene's exclamation, he directly pulled the little wild cat down under him.

Although it is a bit tasteful, the Long Island manor that Song Yang bought for Jenny in name, but Irene is not ready to be a canary. She is now a representative of the strong women in the younger generation of America, and Irene doesn't want to lose it. This persona!

Moreover, with Irene's current status and Song Yang's support, Irene is living like a fish in water. After Double-click goes public, Irene, who holds 1% of Double-click shares, may be worth more than ten million dollars.

The big head is still on ICQ. If ICQ can be listed one day, then Irene may become one of the most expensive female professional managers in America. Manors like Long Island and Manhattan, and even private jets are also difficult for her. Not out of reach!

Unlike Jenny who is not interested in the company and management, Song Yang and Irene can talk about some things, although the occasion of the talk is in bed, which is a bit weird...

Irene, who was completely bored, was lying lazily in front of Song Yang at this time, her eyes were on Song Yang's slightly mature Hollywood-level face compared to last year.

After a long time, Irene opened her mouth and asked Song Yang, "What will ICQ do in the future, when will it apply for listing?!"

Irene is aware of some of Song Yang's plans, especially for the double-click to go public, to prepare for the plan, invest in the acquisition of eBay, Amazon, etc., Irene can't help but feel a little anxious.

As the female head of the world's first instant messaging website, Irene also naturally hopes to bring ICQ to NASDAQ like Whitman. For a female professional manager, this is definitely a Ceiling level feat on Wall Street.

Touching Irene's satin-like skin, Song Yang looked down at Irene's expectant eyes, "Don't be so anxious, ICQ doesn't need to be compared with double-click, maybe it's more important than you imagined!"

Song Yang is not fooling Irene. ICQ is Song Yang's vanguard in occupying the social industry in America. Once he can occupy the social industry in the future, this is an industry that can be compared with Microsoft. Think about the title of social queen, isn't it good? ? !

However, Irene is a little skeptical about Song Yang's words. It's not that she can't see the potential of the social industry. After ICQ went online, it harvested users like a storm, and you know how big the social industry market is. Once you can Find a means of monetization, relying on the huge number of users and traffic in the social industry, you can almost make money lying down!
But that was in the future, and now it looks like ICQ is gaining momentum, but the operation is as fierce as a tiger, and the performance is losing money. With ICQ's current performance, it is a bit of a dream to say that it surpasses Netscape, let alone call it Microsoft.

Looking at Irene, Song Yang said, "Maybe the social industry, the era that really belongs to it, is not the current PC Internet era, but the next era!"

"When the Internet technology is more developed, when the mainstream of the Internet transitions from the PC Internet to the personal Internet era, everyone may have a handheld electronic product that can socialize online. Internet social products will become everyone's necessity, and it will be far more than Microsoft systems are more important to ordinary users!"

Hearing this, Irene's eyes were a little dazed. If the day Song Yang said really came, there would probably be a lot more Internet social users than users using Microsoft computer systems.

But that will happen many years later, Irene and ICQ are definitely not going to wait, Irene pursed her lips, feeling a bit annoyed, "Then ICQ is not doing anything now, and is not planning to go public? "

Seeing Irene rarely make such an expression, Song Yang couldn't help laughing.

After thinking about it, the past few years have been the hottest season on the Internet. If you don’t go public to collect money, I’m really sorry for the fame and advantages that ICQ has gained.

"ICQ can prepare for listing, but listing is not the whole of ICQ!"

"The establishment of ICQ is for users in the social industry. This is the most important thing. ICQ can launch other services such as portals to attract investors, but the social industry must not give up!"

Song Yang explained to Irene, "There are many kinds of social networking industry, not just instant messaging. ICQ must continuously launch new Internet social networking products, or acquire other new social networking companies, and maintain its absolute position in the social networking industry! "

In the future, Song Yang’s Internet social products represented by ICQ will definitely continue to launch new “vests”, open the nesting doll model, and continue to launch or acquire Facebook, Twitter and other social products to maintain an absolute position in the social industry. dominance.

"Games will be the social industry. Apart from advertising, the most important monetization method, ICQ can lay out in this area in advance." Song Yang added another sentence at the end.

Irene looked at Song Yang with bright eyes. She was almost scratching her head for the profit of ICQ. Now that she heard that there is a way to make social cash, she immediately cheered up, "Game?!"

Song Yang nodded, feeling that now is the time to light a fire in the game industry. Games are an indispensable existence in the Internet. No matter how you look at it, they can indeed make money. I dare not say that games support half of the life. Internet companies, but there are definitely one-third of them.

Now is the time when games have entered the era of online games from the stand-alone era. At this time, Song Yang couldn't help but think of Blizzard. He wondered if Blizzard developed a masterpiece "World of Warcraft" at this time.

Looking down at Irene, Song Yang held her and pulled the quilt up, and said with hesitation, "ICQ can pay attention to Blizzard, Valve, Rockstar and other companies, as well as Japanese Benzene and Bangzi's online game development companies..."

Song Yang just mentioned one thing, but Irene kept the companies mentioned by Song Yang firmly in her heart!
When I woke up in the morning, Irene had already rushed to the ICQ company. Song Yang got up and ate breakfast, sweated out from running again, and after washing, he went to San Jose University.

It is said that since entering the University of San Jose last year, Song Yang has not been here for almost half of the time. However, the University of San Jose has no opinion about Song Yang. Instead, the future "well-known alumnus" of the University of San Jose is flattered. , also broke the news to the "San Jose Mercury News" and other media that Song Yang performed well at the University of San Jose and is a role model for the new generation of young people in America...

This time when Song Yang returned to the University of San Jose, this feeling was even more obvious. Obviously, the emergence of American Telecom and the rumor of Song Yang’s skyrocketing net worth had another big impact on the University of San Jose. Among the universities in Liga, in recent years, there is no such vigorous "rookie" as Song Yang!
After Song Yang returned to San Jose, he was ridiculed by the media for hollowing out America Telecom, having no money to hire a real leader, nepotism, and being interested in the sports industry, so Iger was appointed as the president of America Telecom, etc. Song Yang was out of sight and out of mind.

Now San Jose has a taste of Song Yang's stronghold. Local media, reporters, and San Jose congressmen have all started to support Song Yang, and it is impossible for those reporters to go to San Jose to find fault.

Song Yang can see it clearly, but Iger can't avoid it. Becoming the head of American Telecom has greatly increased Iger's popularity, but these popularity may not necessarily be a good voice.

In New York City, the number of media interviews initiated by Iger increased sharply, but Iger refused all of them. This made all kinds of public opinion clamor, and the media that fanned the flames even began to predict how long Iger could stay in America Telecom, when America Telecom will fall down.

Eiger, who just took office, is too busy to care about the public opinion at all. Meetings and interviews alone keep Eiger busy, and there are various meetings. Let Eiger go home and meet with Willow Bell chances are much less.

"The three major operation centers of American Telecom in New York, Silicon Valley, and Houston must be completed this year, and the broadband line in Silicon Valley must also be completed this year!"

In the New York office building of American Telecom, Iger was convening the first management meeting, and said to the newly formed group of executives.

These executives are basically from the Telephone and Telegraph Group, Enron, and Comerica Bank, plus Iger and the personnel recruited during this period. Iger and these new executives are all personnel from Song Yang's side.

Iger made arrangements with a group of executives. New York and Silicon Valley are the two most profitable markets in the telecommunications industry. America Telecom's first step is to occupy these two markets.

Needless to say, New York, Wall Street's telecommunications market was originally occupied by American Telecom, and with the telephone and telegraph as a local snake, it would not take too much effort for American Telecom to capture the New York market.

America Telecom is facing another fat Silicon Valley market. America Telecom wants to win the telecommunications market with San Jose as the core, but with Song Yang and ICQ in San Jose, America Telecom also has a great advantage in Silicon Valley!

Once these two markets can be won, American Telecom is equivalent to having two money printing machines, which can obtain a stable cash flow every year.

"The telecommunications business department will occupy the two major markets of New York and Silicon Valley this year, and the line will also be extended to Texas. The telecommunications retail channel stores must build more than [-] stores in major cities in America this year!"

Iger looked at the senior executives of American Telecom and said, America Telecom is now mainly divided into three major departments. The first major department is naturally the traditional telecom business department, which pulls network cables to major cities. The second largest department is the Song Dynasty. The last department of the chain of retail stores that Yang specifically explained was the financial department that specializes in investment and acquisitions.

Of course, there are other departments such as technology, personnel, and legal affairs, but basically within a few years, these three departments will be the main ones, and the technology will be mainly handed over to Bell Labs.

Kravis, Roberts and others from the KKR Group also came to the meeting today. Looking at Eiger who is constantly arranging and deploying in the conference room, Kravis has a new understanding of Eiger.

Now the media and public opinion are very unfriendly to Eiger, and they are all waiting to see his jokes. Eiger can withstand the pressure of the outside world, and he can also live in the town today, which makes Kravis feel a little different about Eiger. eye to eye.

(End of this chapter)