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Chapter 642
In terms of fanning the flames, these media and reporters are good hands, able to turn corners and respond to people.

As soon as Song Yang said he was optimistic about Amazon, there were reporters who moved out of eBay. As Song Yang's second investment general in the e-commerce industry, eBay's reputation is not weaker than Amazon's, and eBay is controlled by Song Yang. From top to bottom, the management is Song Yang's people, who are almost regarded as his own son by the outside world...

Now the media asks Song Yang to compare Amazon and eBay, which is obviously to create trouble for Song Yang.

Glancing at the reporter who asked the question, Song Yang cast a glance, then turned around and walked towards the trading hall under the escort of Wulf and other security personnel. He came here today to cheer for Amazon. It is necessary to block myself again.

The reporters and media present saw that Song Yang was about to go in, and they all rushed to follow him, and some reporters gave the reporter who was lifting the pot or not opening it a hard look.

Compared with Amazon and Bezos, Song Yang is now a big figure in the Internet industry. Over the past few years, Song Yang has had fewer and fewer opportunities to be interviewed by the media. When he finally had a chance, he was even disturbed.

How much is Amazon’s market value now, how much is Bezos’s worth, and what big moves he can make, but Song Yang is different. He just entered a battle with LVMH in the luxury industry. The valued ICQ is about to go public, and Song Yang's value will soar a lot. Which of these is not a topic, interviewing Song Yang is much higher than interviewing Amazon, and the ratings are much higher!
"Song, what do you think the market value of ICQ can reach?"

"Some media believe that ICQ's bubble is too high, what do you think?"

"Bloomberg Businessweek predicts that Bruno Song will become the second richest man in America this year. Can Song think you can surpass Bill Gates?"

"Will RICK continue to acquire other luxury brands?"

The reporters behind asked Song Yang all kinds of questions, but Song Yang didn't answer them. If you really need to answer these questions one by one, I'm afraid you won't be able to enter the gate today. It's enough to create some gimmicks for Amazon. Song Yang didn't Intended to steal the show.

"Clap!"

When Song Yang entered the Nasdaq trading floor, the headquarters of Yahoo in Silicon Valley, the president of Yahoo, Coog, turned off the TV station in dissatisfaction.

"Jerry, you can see that Bruno Song has never really regarded Yahoo as an ally!"

Coorg shook his head and said to the executives in the conference room, "He believes that one day Yahoo will be overtaken by a website that sells books, and he also predicted that Amazon's market value will exceed $1000 billion..."

The Wall Street managers sitting in the Yahoo conference room couldn't help laughing. What they saw just now was the front-line media's news report on Amazon's listing.

As a "small" Internet company going public, Yahoo is naturally not interested in doing anything about it, not to mention that the two sides are not from the same line. Yahoo is a representative of the Silicon Valley faction, and Amazon is from Seattle. No matter what it is to cheer for, it is even more impossible for Yang Zhiyuan, the chief of Yahoo, to go.

Even, if it wasn't for Yahoo, it was preparing for an e-commerce business, and it might compete with Amazon in the future. Another point, if Amazon is a company invested by someone, Yahoo probably wouldn't pay attention to an "unknown soldier" at all.

But just now, the news interviewed on TV made Coorg and many Yahoo executives feel angry.

Yahoo’s market value is more than 500 billion US dollars, how much is Amazon’s market value? Greg is dissatisfied.

"Perhaps, Yahoo needs to issue another equity award. Some people can't let some people hold Yahoo stocks that are constantly appreciating, but they still want to scold Yahoo..."

A director sent by a Wall Street institution to Yahoo suddenly spoke. When the words came out, all the directors and executives of Yahoo showed their eyes.

Seeing the expressions of the people in the conference room, Yang Zhiyuan couldn't help sighing. He didn't want to cause conflicts with Song Yang. In Silicon Valley, Chinese descent is rare, and Yang Zhiyuan didn't want to meet Song Yang in battle. , fighting to the death.

But obviously, Yahoo's directors and executives didn't think so. They didn't know how Yahoo was fooled by Song Yang in the first place, and even exchanged Yahoo's equity with Double-click, creating a cross-shareholding.

As a result, Song Yang is now Yahoo's largest individual shareholder, holding 9% of Yahoo's shares. This was diluted once when Yahoo was listed, otherwise he would take more. And more.

According to the current market value of Yahoo, Song Yang's 9% stake in Yahoo has exceeded US$45 billion.

Looking at the meeting room, where a group of organizations were happily discussing how to split up Song Yang's shareholding in Yahoo, Yang Zhiyuan suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness.

Yahoo's current market value is getting higher and higher, and the name of Yahoo chief is getting louder and louder, but Yang Zhiyuan's control over Yahoo is getting weaker and weaker. His current shareholding in Yahoo has also been diluted. Song Yang has nowhere to go.

And looking around, the people who made great contributions to Yahoo by squeezing the floor with him to eat McDonald's have now faded out of the ranks of Yahoo executives. The number one employee of Yahoo, Brady, has long since left Yahoo. , basically all Wall Street executives.

"Now is not the time to compete with Bruno Song. Our opponents are MSN, AOL, Lycos, Excite, Snap, Disney's infoseek, etc., not Song. This is of no use to Yahoo!"

Yang Zhiyuan spoke suddenly, which surprised everyone in the conference room, and representatives of Wall Street institutions wanted to speak, Coorg coughed, "This is the end of today's meeting, Jerry is right, Yahoo's most important opponent now, and Not Song."

Coorg is familiar with Yang Zhiyuan's character and knows that he doesn't want to start a war with Song Yang. Even though Coorg thinks that Song Yang may be Yahoo's most important opponent in the future, for Song Yang, Yahoo's management and Yang Zhiyuan will fall apart. , he feels that it is not worth it, there will be opportunities in the future!

When Song Yang entered the NASDAQ hall, he attracted the attention of many people. Amazon founder Bezos, board member John Dole and others all set their sights on Song Yang.

"Congratulations, Bezos, Amazon will be the world's first listed e-commerce company. I have already assured the media that Amazon's market value is less than $[-] trillion. I don't want to sell Amazon's stock. it disappointed me."

When Song Yang shook hands with Bezos, he smiled and said to him, making everyone at the scene smile. The photographer in charge of shooting the documentary on Amazon's listing firmly aimed the camera at Song Yang and Bezos. Song Yang It was the highest-status Internet figure who came here today to cheer for Amazon's listing!

(End of this chapter)