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Chapter 537
The number of ICQ personnel in Song Yang's hands has already exceeded a thousand. With just one ICQ and Xueleshan, ICQ's personnel size is now one of the largest companies in the Internet industry in America.

Whether it makes money or not is another matter, but the company has the largest number of employees. Together with PayPal, DoubleClick, Fortinet, eBay and other companies, Song Yang has almost become one of the biggest hills in Silicon Valley.

According to Song Yang’s words, Aaron Swartz’s progress on Wikipedia will be much faster if he can mobilize manpower from ICQ and other companies.

When he left Song Yang's place, Aaron Swartz looked back. He felt that Song Yang seemed to have revealed something to him today, but Aaron Swartz didn't think it through for a while.

Swartz feels that Song Yang seems to have no intention of competing with payment platforms such as X.com for burning money, but more like waiting for something to come.

A thought loomed in his mind, but Aaron Swartz felt it was too ridiculous. He felt that Song Yang seemed to be waiting for the Internet bubble to burst, but you must know that Song Yang is one of the biggest winners in the current Internet trend , If the bubble really burst, then Song Yang was also the first group of unlucky people, which made Aaron Swartz a little puzzled.

Shaking his head, Aaron Swartz stopped thinking about it. These things are not what he needs to think about now. What he needs to be busy now is to deal with PayPal and build Wikipedia.

Now Aaron Swartz wants to be worthy, to have a status, and to be able to launch the Wikipedia that he has always wanted to launch. The industry is doomed, and Song Yang is PayPal's backup, and that is the last PayPal to fall!
Song Yang looked at the figure of Aaron Swartz leaving. Regarding PayPal, except for the use of dollar rewards to attract people when it was first launched, Song Yang rarely burns money to grab users now.

As for other payment platforms willing to burn money to seize the market, that is their business, and Song Yang is also happy to see the success.

For an industry that wants to develop quickly from scratch, besides waiting, the most effective way is to burn money.

The most classic ones are the food delivery war and the taxi-hailing war. They all rely on continuous burning of money and huge subsidies to users. It takes a few years to burn money and cultivate a market. The sentence is really realized, and there is no demand. , then create demand!
However, the cultivation of the market does not mean that the one who pays the money will definitely be the winner. Only the one who survives to the end will be the winner. In the Internet industry, there is only one winner, and the rest are at most drinking soup .

It’s the same in the payment industry. With the help of PayPal, it is difficult for them to take over a market in a short period of time. At this time, only competitors are desperately developing the market to attract users, so that more users can use the electronic payment platform. The payment industry can become one of the mainstream payment methods.

So Song Yang also allowed the X.com payment platform to burn money to grab the market. As for whether they will threaten PayPal payment, it depends on whether they can survive the Internet bubble burst in a year or two. See if there is a US knife, let's continue to challenge PayPal.

Even if platforms such as X.com payment can barely survive after the Internet bubble bursts, then it will be the time when the bayonet really hits the spotlight, and there will be a money-burning war with PayPal openly, otherwise, wait to be paid by PayPal Let's buy it at the price of cabbage.

As for Musk and others, whether they will scold PayPal's sixth child or the like is unknown. Anyway, Song Yang is going to use X.com payment and others as horses and let them help develop the payment industry.

"Prepare for a banquet party, ready to welcome Marcus, Collison and the others!"

Song Yang explained to Gallo in front of him that Marcus and Collison, who had been tossing around in Southeast Asia for so long, were already preparing to finish the job. Big cash flow.

Marcus also helped American Telecom, Alcatel Mobile Phone, PA Semiconductor, Panda TV, etc., to acquire a large number of industries and patents in Southeast Asia. The purchase of Samsung Semiconductor, LG panels, storage technology, etc., made Alcatel Mobile a Big bucks.

As for the rest of the industry, not to mention the property market, real estate, office buildings, Siam Red Bull Company, etc., they were all bought at the price of cabbage.

Soros' Quantum Fund, Tiger Fund, etc. are still planning to continue to make moves on foreign exchange such as Hong Kong City and Japan Benzene, but Song Yang has already begun to finish it. Even Collison is still a little unwilling, thinking that he can continue to cut leeks .

"Are we wrapping up now?"

Collison couldn't help asking Marcus when he heard the news that they were going back to America.

Collison and the others are now at Bangziyi, a mansion located in the Letaewon district of Bangzi Seoul, and also a gathering place for Bangzi chaebols. In Bangzi, it is said that "it's not surprising that you don't know Seoul, but it's strange that you don't know Itaewon". The reputation here is huge.

The apartment where Collison and Marcus lived belonged to a chaebol before, but now it is in the hands of the North American Global Investment Foundation.

The big chaebols in Bangzi are now cutting off their tails to survive, and they are constantly selling off various properties to repay their debts. Luxury houses in places like Itaewon, even if they wanted to buy them before, had no way to buy them, but now they have become the price of cabbage. As long as you have a beautiful knife, you can start.

Marcus cast a glance at Collison, and asked the servants who belonged here to help pack the luggage. When he took over the mansion, he basically took over everything here.

The servants, drivers, gardeners, cooks, concierges, etc. of the mansion in the apartment, except that the security was replaced by the Blackwater Company, almost all of the rest stayed. The scene of smashing windows and grabbing roads in broad daylight, after these people go out, they basically have to be displaced.

I glanced at the home improvement furniture in the mansion, including pianos, sofas, stereos, etc., all of which are the world's top brands. To be honest, Marcus has seen many mansions in America, but he was able to stay with this chaebol. Compared with the mansion, I am afraid there are not many.

If he didn't want to return to America, Marcus would be willing to live in this mansion. He can only sigh that the happiness of the Bangzi chaebol is beyond the imagination of ordinary people. Everyone scolds the chaebol, and everyone wants to be a chaebol. As long as there are conditions...

"Soros and Tiger Fund are still working on it. If we finish it now, I'm afraid we will lose a lot of money!"

Collison also wanted to convince Marcus, but in the end, only Marcus said coldly, "This is what Song meant. If you have any opinions, you can bring them up to him when you return to San Jose!"

(End of this chapter)