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Chapter 269
Voting rights and patent licensing seem to be support for Bezos, but they are also threats. If Bezos does not accept Song Yang's investment, then Song Yang will use patents and other things to invest money in it The opponent is so cruel that Amazon is disgusting!

What Bezos is worried about, of course, Song Yang understands. Zhuyu, who was driven away by Jobs and Cisco, saw the founders of Netscape. Walking with the Internet, don't worry that it is fake.

For Amazon, Bezos has never given up his equity, and firmly controls Amazon's control, fearing that he will be swept out one day.

But this time, Song Yang was going to take away 35% of Amazon's shares as soon as he came up, which made Bezos even more worried, but Song Yang's name and the high valuation of Amazon also made Bezos a little concerned. With this money, Bezos has a chance to kill Barnes & Noble and become the largest book retailer in America!
Song Yang handed over the voting rights of this equity to Bezos to manage, which also relieved Bezos from worrying about the future. As for three years later, whether to continue to let Bezos proxy the voting rights or to withdraw the voting rights, that is Let’s talk about it again, it depends on how far Bezos can play Amazon.

Song Yang's Asian tour team is also constantly preparing, but the investment in Amazon is only one of them. The investment in PA semiconductor and the acquisition of the mobile phone business from Alcatel Group are also busy. The time is so fast that the feet don't touch the ground.

In the Yahoo headquarters building, which is only a dozen kilometers away from the ICQ office building, Yahoo has already surrounded a lot of land in Mountain View City, preparing to build a landmark building.

At this moment, the scale of Yahoo's internal personnel has expanded several times compared to the scale when it went public. The entire office building is full of busy figures.

And rules, of course, began to appear. Before the listing, there were only a few hundred people, and all employees were free to enter and leave Yang Zhiyuan's or Fei Luo's office if they had ideas or problems. Now, rules have begun to appear.

The point is that Yang Zhiyuan has also started to get busy. Media interviews and various activities have continued one after another. Even Stanford invited Yang Zhiyuan to give a speech at the school.

After going public, the amount of exposure began to increase exponentially. Yang Zhiyuan received far better treatment than Mark Anderson at the beginning. The skyrocketing stock price of Yahoo started a new round of god-making movement in Silicon Valley and Wall Street. He is now a member of Yahoo! A business card represents Yahoo!

"Softbank proposes to establish Japan Yahoo in Japan, and Softbank will directly control and manage Japan Yahoo, America's Yahoo headquarters, and buy shares with brand and technology, holding 35% of Japan Yahoo's shares!"

Yahoo headquarters, a meeting is going on, Yahoo executives Coorg, Yang Zhiyuan, Filo, Brady and others, as well as representatives of Sequoia Investment in Silicon Valley and several major Wall Street institutions, are all present, but if you are careful, It will be found that the former veterans of Yahoo, except for a few people such as Brady, have disappeared in the management, and Wall Street is taking over Yahoo.

Even Brady, the No. 1 employee of Yahoo, looked gloomy at this time, and sat at the end of the meeting room. After the listing, Yahoo began to "regularize" and invited a large number of professional managers from Wall Street to come As executives, these people are all from prestigious universities and have served as executives in large groups. Their abilities are indeed outstanding, but their understanding of the Internet is different.

Brady naturally has opinions on the actions of these executives from Wall Street. As soon as these people arrived, Yahoo began to buy, buy and buy. Companies such as Four11 and Viaweb are all professional managers, and Yahoo bought them. Down the line, some of it did help Yahoo's business, and the stock started to skyrocket, but some of it...

The companies that were acquired are hard to describe. Those companies obviously had some dealings with Wall Street investment banks. Think about what Yahoo does, and ended up buying a company that develops Internet software for a lot of money. Isn’t that funny? Yahoo’s current technology , looking at the entire Silicon Valley is top-notch, what kind of software technology can't be developed, if it can't be developed, then it is not a technology, but a patent troll, just like ICQ!

Brady wanted to say something, but looking at Yang Zhiyuan, who was already surrounded by people from Wall Street, and those familiar faces in the conference room, all of them had disappeared, and Brady could only sigh.

"I agree, the software will establish the Japan Yahoo brand in Japan!"

After Coorg voted with a show of hands, it was approved without any suspense. Softbank is now the largest shareholder of Yahoo, the largest shareholder. What's wrong with the power being controlled by Softbank? Why didn't Sun Zhengyi get some returns when he invested in Yahoo at a time of crisis? !
The new product manager of Yahoo said at this time, "I suggest that Yahoo develop its own branded e-commerce platform as soon as possible. Statistics show that e-commerce may be one of the main battlefields in the future!"

The executive from Wall Street talked eloquently, "Microsoft and AOL are all deploying the e-commerce industry, let alone Bruno Song. We can't lose the opportunity this time and be as passive as we are in the instant messaging industry!"

When he said this, the new product manager glanced vaguely in the direction of Brady. Brady is one of the few people in Yahoo who advocated not to compete with Song Yang, but he is now being criticized because of this. I think it is Brady who has dragged down Yahoo's development in the field of instant messaging, and has not yet launched Yahoo Messenger!
This time, Yang Zhiyuan finally didn't agree immediately, but frowned, "Isn't it too hasty to enter e-commerce like this?"

Yang Zhiyuan, who has a big brother mentality, still doesn't want to confront Song Yang head-on. Yahoo's e-mail battle with Hotmail is acceptable to Yang Zhiyuan. After all, Song Yang has already sold Hotmail in America and launched Yahoo Messenger. This product connects a huge number of users.

But entering the e-commerce industry in a hurry, it was a bit too obvious to be tough and fight with Song Yang, but Yang Zhiyuan knew that Song Yang was not the kind of person who suffered a loss and would not say anything, let alone Song Yang still owned Yahoo! With 9% of the equity, it took a lot of effort on Yahoo's side to drive Song Yang's representative out of the Yahoo executive meeting. Otherwise, if there was a disturbance on Yahoo's side, Song Yang would know about it.

Brady also took the opportunity to say at this time, "Bruno Song is not Yahoo's current opponent. More than half of Yahoo's current revenue comes from the cooperation with double-click ads. Yahoo should not regard Song as its main opponent!"

Brady, who has the closest relationship with Song Yang, can understand that Song Yang doesn't want to fight Yahoo, otherwise it would not be the calm situation today. See how he cheated Netscape, and you will know that Song Yang's methods are comparable to Yahoo! Out of character, now that Yahoo wants to provoke Song Yang, Brady is also a headache.

Now there are portal websites, rivals such as Lycos and Excite, Microsoft’s MSN and AOL are also eyeing, the search industry has a strong rival like Altavista, e-mail has just started, and the instant messaging industry wants to challenge ICQ for supremacy. That’s it, Brah Di couldn't figure it out, why did Yahoo want to fight Song Yang to the death? !
Brady can't figure it out. People on Wall Street are very knowledgeable. Yahoo has so many businesses. It doesn't matter whether it makes money or not. , Isn’t this the wealth code? As long as Yahoo’s stock price is still skyrocketing, Wall Street will not let go of this wealth code.

At this time, someone knocked on the door of the conference room. The assistant of Yahoo President Coorg hurried in and whispered a few words in Coorg's ear. Feel more prosperous.

He glanced at the people in the conference room, especially after stopping for a moment on Brady before moving away.

"I think everyone, put away your previous ideas, maybe the opponent is stronger than we thought!"

Coorg’s low voice sounded, with a bit of anger and dissatisfaction, “We can’t lag behind our opponents everywhere, Yahoo wants to be the leader in the Internet industry, not a follower, I decided to immediately launch Yahoo’s e-commerce platform, Yahoo Stores. "

Hearing this, everyone in the conference room reacted differently. Yang Zhiyuan was a little worried, but people from Wall Street smiled. The popularity of e-commerce is obviously increasing.

Before Brady objected, Coorg said, "Bruno Song's Americas Investment Fund, after investing in eBay, has just reached an agreement with Amazon to invest in Amazon at a price of 3000 million US dollars!"

Hearing this, the conference room suddenly burst into commotion. Yahoo did not expect Song Yang to start so quickly. He had just invested in eBay, and then invested in Amazon non-stop. up.

When Yang Zhiyuan heard this, he couldn't say anything more. Song Yang began to bet heavily. If Yahoo didn't follow up, he might really be left behind in the e-commerce field.

After the conference room was over, Coorg and others left. Brady sighed helplessly and walked to Yang Zhiyuan's office, "Song, I sent an invitation to Yahoo to join us in the trip to Asia. Would Yahoo like to join?"

"I'm still thinking about it!"

Yang Zhiyuan said that he wanted to participate, but Coorg hoped that Yang Zhiyuan would go to Asia alone on behalf of Yahoo, and go to Asia with Song Yang. Yahoo was afraid that Yang Zhiyuan's Bigger and Guangguang would be robbed.

Song Yang made a huge bet on the e-commerce industry, and finally detonated the e-commerce industry completely. Yahoo and AOL, who have mastered the wealth code, announced their entry into the e-commerce industry on the same day and launched their own brand e-commerce. These two big companies in the Internet industry , The simultaneous announcement of admission has led to a large number of companies flooding into the entire industry.

(End of this chapter)