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Chapter 43
When Song Yang came to the double-click company, he could hear the staff in the double-click company, and there were whispers from time to time.

After arriving at the office, Irene brought over several newspapers. Seeing the reports above, Song Yang couldn't help rubbing his teeth. Yahoo's acquisition of the [-] million dollars was almost equivalent to kicking off the Internet frenzy. prelude.

Song Yang couldn't help but shook his head, not to mention Yahoo's competitors, Song Yang was a little greedy, this is [-] million US dollars, with such a large amount of funds, Yahoo has enough funds to defeat all competitors.

Seeing Greg entering the office, Song Yang put down the newspaper, looked at Greg and Irene in the office, and said casually, "Do you think Double-click should exchange equity with Yahoo?"

Greg and Irene were taken aback. They didn't expect that Song Yang would propose this. Yahoo is now in the limelight. Money, Double-click is definitely not as good as Softbank, and they can't give much.

What the double-click company can get is probably the equity, but in order to exchange equity, Yahoo will definitely have to open up.

"I'm afraid Yahoo may not be willing. Even if they agree to exchange shares, the asking price may not be low!" Irene said, she is proficient in theory, and now Double-click is at a disadvantage compared to Yahoo, at least in terms of valuation. The company may suffer.

Song Yang, who was just talking casually at first, touched his chin at this time, and suddenly felt that the exchange of shares may not be a bad thing for Double-click Company. At present, even if Yahoo asks for a higher price, the market value at its peak exceeds 5 billion US dollars. Even just exchanging [-]% of Yahoo's equity, the future value will exceed billions of dollars.

As for Double-Click, even Song Yang has to admit that even if the future is full of bullshit, unless it can backhand buy advertising giants like WPP or Omnicom, it will not be able to catch up with Yahoo's market value.

As for whether Yahoo will agree to exchange shares, Song Yang is not worried. Now Double-Click is Yahoo's general advertising agent. The deal was worthless before, but now it is different. The higher the market value of Yahoo, Double-Click is the general advertising agency. The more valuable it is.

And in a short period of time, at least within one or two years, Yahoo can't get rid of Double-Click Company. As long as it wants to go public, it needs Double-Click Company to continuously provide it with a large amount of advertising revenue!
"You can contact Yahoo first," Song Yang said while looking at Greg and Irene, asking them to test Yahoo first, "I will call Brady myself!"

On the Yahoo side, Song Yang is most familiar with Brady, the current chief product officer of Yahoo. As for Yang Zhiyuan, although Song Yang has admired his name for a long time, he hasn't met him yet.

Greg and Irene looked at each other. Although they didn't deal with each other, they knew it was a big deal, so they nodded to each other.

Then Irene put another document in front of Song Yang, "Right now, nearly ten Internet digital advertising companies such as L90 and Avenue have appeared in the market. These companies have appeared recently and want to compete with Double-Click. !"

Involvement is everywhere, not to mention other places. Don’t follow the trend too much in America. After the double-click company received tens of millions of dollars in investment, companies that followed the trend in Internet digital advertising grew like weeds. Everyone wants to be the second double-click company, who doesn't want to replace Song Yang and become the person holding champagne in the famous American photo?

"We are going to sue a digital advertising company for copyright infringement!" Gleick also said, this is to make an example of others, so that those followers should not go too far. Of course, if any follower is caught and dares to steal the technology and patents of the double-click company, it will definitely It is necessary to beat the opponent to bankruptcy.

Song Yang took a few glances, and most of these newly emerged digital advertising companies are following the double-click company. Now the two most famous websites on the Internet, Netscape and Yahoo's general advertising agency are double-click, and other digital advertising companies Advertising companies basically lose money and make money.

"Let the legal department handle this matter!" Song Yang said to Greg, there is no second in the Internet industry, only the first, as long as the double-click company occupies the first place in the industry, the latter can only drink the northwest wind!

After Greg, Irene and others left, Song Yang signed several documents and turned on the computer. Song Yang was about to enter a new industry, so he naturally wanted to know the entire American Internet best.

What Song Yang didn't expect was that hundreds of new websites appeared in just half a year. Song Yang remembered that a few months ago, there were very few websites that could be accessed.

The biggest changes are undoubtedly Netscape and Yahoo. Netscape has added a lot of new features. It is said that the browser is almost becoming a small half of the computer system. Office software has even been added, which is a sign of arm wrestling with Microsoft. Don't be too obvious.

Yahoo has already begun to have the prototype of a portal website. Compared with the original monotonous interface, it has now added new functions such as news, sports, and stocks, and has added hundreds of new websites.

Song Yang saw a piece of news on Yahoo News that Jim Clark of Netscape accepted an exclusive interview with CNN, the base of the donkey party, including his response to recent events in Silicon Valley and the Internet industry. Jim Clark can be seen in every word The godfather of Silicon Valley.

But think about it, Jim Clark is indeed a Silicon Valley godfather, but I just don’t know if Microsoft and Yahoo recognize this identity...

Song Yang glanced at the time, turned on the TV in the office, turned to CNN, and Jim Clark immediately appeared. Jim sat in the studio looking like a boss, talking to the reporter.

"I admit that Yahoo is developing well. Yahoo is now the search technology supplier of Netscape. I am very optimistic about Yahoo!"

Song Yang almost didn't laugh when he heard what Jim Clark said in front of the camera. Jim looked like he was praising Yahoo, but he actually regarded Yahoo as his younger brother. No matter how powerful Yahoo is, it's just like Netscape one of the suppliers.

Facing the camera, Jim answered some hot questions, such as whether Yahoo is worth the investment of [-] million dollars. Jim must not say that it is worthless, otherwise Netscape will also be questioned, but when Jim said this, he used A trick, "Sooner or later, Yahoo will be worth such a price!"

That is to say, Yahoo may not be worth the price right now, but don’t panic, it may be worth it in a few years. This is to let the people in Silicon Valley and Wall Street realize that Netscape is the leader of the Internet industry. Listening to the wind is the rain, Yahoo and Netscape are still far behind...

Then Jim answered a few more questions. Song Yang didn't plan to pay any more attention at first, but suddenly heard the name of the double-click company, and looked up at the TV again.

"Director Jim, what do you think of Double-click Company and Bruno Song? Recently, Double-click Company has started to establish a branch in New York less than half a year after its establishment. Is it developing too fast?" the host asked Jim.

Jim shook his head, his face became serious, "I think this is absolutely correct. This is the Internet industry. It may take a long time to go from 0 to 1, but it may only take a moment to go from 1 to 10. Double-click companies need to complete the right Netscape has a performance promise for next year, and I think this step is absolutely correct!"

Jim Clark is impeccable. If the double-click company is questioned for taking too big a step, then Netscape will also be questioned, so he directly plugged this gap.

"What about Song?"

"Song?!"

Jim Clark mentioned Song Yang, with a weird smile on his face, "It's a pity that Netscape failed to invest in Double-Click, Song is a genius, I think in the future, e-commerce companies, such as Amazon, may find this a little."

The host wanted to know why Jim Clark suddenly mentioned the e-commerce industry. He didn't know what it had to do with Song Yang.

But Jim Clark was tight-lipped about this, and he was unwilling to say it alive or dead. He looked like he was watching the excitement. In fact, when Jim Clark was planning to invest in Double-Click, he was only able to discover those "" Interactive network", "one-click order", "one-click payment" and other patents.

Jim can imagine that Amazon and other companies in the e-commerce industry will definitely fight with Song Yang because of these patents. He has already moved the small bench and is ready to watch the show. As for reminding Amazon and other companies, he Only when you are full can you do this shit.

Originally, the interview was about to end. The host held down the headset and heard some news. He asked Jim, "Director Jim, do you really think Song is this kind of person? We heard some different remarks!"

Song Yang could see that Jim Clark on TV was obviously stunned for a moment. Obviously, this question was not in his expectation before the interview, at least he didn't know it in advance.

Jim's face changed for a moment, and then he immediately returned to normal. He looked at the camera and said, "I believe what I saw. Song is a genius. We can't look at a person with prejudice, otherwise what we see must be prejudice!"

Song Yang looked at the end of the interview and knew that he owed Jim Clark a favor. He was vouching for Song Yang almost in front of the public, but Song Yang had to know what happened to make the host suddenly ask such a question .

Picking up the phone, Song Yang called Irene to call, "Find out this matter!"

Half an hour later, Song Yang, who saw the news on TV and knew what was going on, became a little ugly.

The news was interviewed by a local media in New York. In the picture, there was a familiar figure. Bledsoe Jayden, who had arrived in New York at some point, was talking nonsense surrounded by several lawyer-like people.

"Bruno Song is a liar and a thief. He is not as good as the media reports. He can go to the de Vrye school to investigate. He also stole the double-click company, and he also has contacts with some people who are not welcomed by the FBI. ..."

"It's the vulture lawyers!" Seeing the hysterical Jayden on the TV news, and the few people behind him, Greg also looked a little ugly.

(End of this chapter)