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Chapter 478 Open the bow without turning back the arrow
Cutting leeks also needs to pay attention to skills. You can’t cut them hard, or they won’t grow easily. Therefore, before cutting each time, you have to change your posture, water the leeks and apply some fertilizer. Only after cutting the leeks can you Grow good leeks again!
In the past few years, from the launch of Hotmai mailbox, the use of viral marketing, to the launch of ICQ, the use of the model of pulling people's heads, after experiencing the two large-scale promotion models of the Internet, the leeks have also begun to see a lot.

When it’s the turn to promote PayPal payment, that kind of hard push will not work. It’s time to use some tricks of Boss Ma’s Double Eleven, and all kinds of coupons are available.

As long as you register for a PayPal account, you can sign in and get various coupons. If you just started to attract leeks, no, it’s users who entered the pit, you can directly issue cash rewards of three dollars or five dollars, and then you can get a discount of one dollar for every ten dollars. Coupons for US dollars, [-] US dollars off for [-] US dollars, etc...

Compared with giving money to those TV stations, newspapers, platforms, etc., sending money directly to users at the beginning is still much simpler and more rude. , Then there will definitely be opportunities in the future!
After Ai Lin, Xie Qing and others, companies in the hands of Song Yang, such as Double Click, America Telecom, Yeadex, ebay, etc., also began to express their support for PayPal.

Companies such as ICQ and Double-Click have already gotten used to this model. As long as Song Yang has a new product or releases a new product, all major companies will support the new project under the coordination of the North American Global Investment Foundation.

Compared with Motorola, Japan Sony and other major departments in giant companies, the situation of internal strife from time to time, Song Yang's ICQ, America Telecom, Alcatel mobile phone, etc. operate independently of each other and support each other at critical moments. Instead, it is a good model. A few points, if they all get together, I don't know how much more fuss will be made, after all, who wants to be controlled by others!
Now, even if the relationship between the major companies in Song Yang's hands is not good, they only deal with each other a few times a year. Even if they are dissatisfied, they will pinch their noses and admit it.

A meeting ended after a while, not only about the launch of PayPal, but also Yeadex and America Telecom, which were far away from Lao Maozi, also made some reports to Song Yang.

The technology industry, telecommunications industry, etc. have developed too fast in the past few years. Yeadex is in Lao Maozi, a dominant family. The life is not bad. The key is that Lao Maozi and Eastern European Internet users are not enough, and Yeadex has too many stalls. In this way, Song Yang needs to continue feeding to survive!
Song Yang was mentally prepared for this point. Even in a few days, when Soros started to do things in Southeast Asia, the old Maozi's life would be even more difficult, and Yeadex's life would not be much better.

But a crisis is often a danger with an opportunity. When Lao Maozi gets into the quagmire again due to the influence of Southeast Asia, then maybe the opportunity for Yeadex will come instead, and it will be able to expand its business and users again!

On the contrary, it was America Telecom, which made Song Yang feel a little tricky. It wasn't that there was a problem with the development of America Telecom, but on the contrary, America Telecom was in full swing under the leadership of Eiger.

Now no one would mention that Iger took the position of president of American Telecom because of his connections or cheap annual salary. Instead, he began to regard him as a real big shot in the telecom industry!

Since Iger took over as the president of America Telecom last year, this year, Iger has delivered a brilliant answer sheet. The users and revenue of America Telecom have almost exploded.

America Telecom is now the largest broadband operator in America, occupying the entire broadband market on Wall Street. One-third of the telecommunications market in Silicon Valley belongs to America Telecom. The broadband markets in New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago and other places, America Telecom almost They are all headed by American Telecom.

In addition, America Telecom's mobile Internet business through the Alcatel P1 mobile phone has made America Telecom even more prosperous, and America Telecom's mobile phone electronic retail stores have made America Telecom's performance quite bright. Eye.

Although carrying a lot of debt, American Telecom's revenue this year may reach an astonishing level. The revenue may exceed 300 billion U.S. dollars. This revenue is not comparable to giants such as Verizon, Bell, and WorldCom, but As an emerging telecommunications company, American Telecom is already a legend in the eyes of the outside world if it can reach this step.

But in the crazy telecommunications industry, America Telecom seems a bit "conservative". Even though America Telecom has already expanded wildly, compared with those bold guys, America Telecom is somewhat unknown.

In the conference room, everyone else had already left, and Song Yang was on the phone with Iger in New York.

"Song, there is news in the telecommunications industry that WorldCom may make a big move. It is reported that WorldCom President Bernard Ebes announced in public that he has met with the board of directors of MFS Telecom Group!"

Through the phone, Song Yang could hear Eiger's anxiety. American Telecom and WorldCom are rivals, and now WorldCom is eyeing MFS Group again. You must know that last year, MFS Group was against WorldCom. Now WorldCom actually plans to swallow MFS Telecom, which is a giant with a market value of tens of billions of dollars!
Not only WorldCom, but the telecommunications bill passed last year has intensified this year. Disney has confirmed the acquisition of ABC Group. AOL has reported that Case is in contact with people from Time Warner Group. The telecommunications and media industries are starting to make big moves one by one. Appear.

Now the telecommunications and media industries in America are in a state where the big fish eat the small fish. Whoever swallows the opponent first will be the winner. Iger and America Telecom are also worried, for fear that they will be swallowed up by giants such as WorldCom that day. !

Even America Telecom's top iron has always been against WorldCom, but telecom giants such as WorldCom, Verizon, Bell Group, etc. are constantly annexing each other, and their strength continues to skyrocket. When the time comes, the telecom industry may not be killed by America Telecom land.

Song Yang frowned, and said to Eiger on the other end of the phone, "Now is not the time for American Telecom to do something. The most important thing now is PayPal, and... other things!"

"But Iger, I can assure you that America Telecom can start to do it after these things are done now. America Telecom will never lose to that guy WorldCom and Bernard!"

America Telecom and WorldCom's Liangzi have formed a knot, not to mention sworn enemies, but America Telecom must not be sold to that guy who grows potatoes.

After hanging up the phone, Song Yang couldn't help but feel a bit of a headache. The telecommunications industry is the real Shura field. Big mergers and acquisitions cost tens of billions of dollars at every turn. In this industry, it is really not easy to survive!
American Telecom is related to Song Yang's right to speak in America and a channel of public opinion. No matter what, you can't give up. Whether it's ICQ or ICNC TV station, the actual root is American Telecom. Without American Telecom, these are rootless The trees are scattered when the wind blows.

As long as there is American Telecom, even if the ICQ style is weak and the ICNC TV station is in a downturn, it will be able to launch a new TV station with a huge user base.

Now in the telecommunications industry in America, big mergers and acquisitions are constantly going on, and American Telecom is not immune. When Song Yang makes a move, it is time to send ICQ and America Telecom to go public. At that time, it will start a big merger and acquisition. It depends on America Telecom and WorldCom. There are other telecom groups, who is more vigorous!
Located in the PayPal office of the ICQ office building, PayPal, which has been developed in secret, is finally outside the office today, with the PayPal brand on it, and the official website has also been launched yesterday.

Aaron Swartz, who has just officially become the first president of PayPal, glanced at the people in the office. Now PayPal is mainly based on the technical department, and the personnel, finance, legal affairs, logistics, etc. are all borrowed from the ICQ company. .

But even so, PayPal's staff size has exceeded 300 people. Aaron Swartz still remembers that when he was recruited by Song Yang to form a team to develop PayPal, there were only about a dozen people at that time. Now the size of the staff has increased by as much as thirty times!
Glancing at the time, it was almost eight o'clock in the morning. Aaron Swartz knew that all major companies were waiting for PayPal to go online. ICQ, eBay, Amazon, Yeadex and other companies went online last night. The new version is to cooperate with PayPal.

Taking a deep breath, Aaron Swartz knew that now Song Yang, in the ICQ office building, was waiting for PayPal's launch and performance. Now it was a close call, and there was no turning back.

"Everyone, PayPal is still a little bit uninterested, but I believe that in a month's time, on Wall Street and in the major banks in America, the most discussed will be PayPal. You are witnessing history, and you are creating A miracle, you will change the payment habits of countless people all over the world!"

Aaron Swartz told a group of PayPal employees in the office about the chicken soup that he thought about for half the night yesterday before he came up with it.

When the hour hand reached eight o'clock, Aaron Swartz finally shouted that sentence, "PayPal is online!"

Without its brothers, when Hotmail, ICQ, and Alcatel mobile phones were launched, they held press conferences and large-scale promotions. PayPal seemed a little "quiet", and it was not even seen in the mainstream media. Advertisement to PayPal.

But if there is a third-party data agency statistics, if you find PayPal, you will find that the installation volume of the entire PayPal has shown exponential growth from the moment it goes online!

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