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Chapter 940 30 Years Hexi

The home appliance business of GM was jointly taken over by Alcatel Mobile Phone and Panda TV. In the future, various home appliances such as washing machines, dishwashers, and baking machines produced by GM Appliances can have three kinds of brands. The logo of General Electric Appliances.

In this way, although there is a brand authorization fee to be paid to General Electric every year, it is definitely worth it. General Electric Appliances is an "old brand" in America, and even in the recession, the recognition is quite high.

Directly using the brand of General Electric Appliances can avoid the risk of crazy advertising to open up the market.

Coupled with the brand of Panda TV and Alcatel mobile phone, it can be matched with playing cards. One product is launched in three grades of ordinary, mid-range and high-end products for users to choose from.

As the person in charge of General Electric Appliances, Mashutes is also crazy about revitalizing the American home appliance industry, revitalizing the glory of the American home appliance industry, and bringing the American home appliance business back to the [-]th century, when the whole world bought American production The era of TVs, radios, and record players!
While shouting slogans, Mashutus moved all the production lines of General Electric Appliances, no matter how he did it, the slogans must be shouted anyway.

As long as the slogan is loud and the public relations fee is high, no one can question Mashutes' words, and he is not alone in doing this. The major manufacturers in America have already started playing tricks.

Why is Detroit, the city of automobiles in America, getting worse and worse? It’s not that Ford, General Motors, Chrysler and other brands of auto giants have moved their production lines and put them in Mexico, Eastern Europe, Asia and other places. Their slogans are still Not equally loud.

At the Google headquarters, George Bell, the president of Excite, and several executives sat quietly in the Google conference room, like lambs waiting to be slaughtered, waiting for the executioner's choice, but there was nothing they could do.

Once upon a time, Excite's board of directors and executives still claimed in internal emails to employees that within three years, Excite would become one of the top ten Internet companies in America, and become a giant company like ICQ and Yahoo!
Excite also merged At Home Gorp with US$67 billion before, forming the top two search giants in America. At that time, the leader in the search industry was Yahoo, but that was also the most glorious time since Excite was established.

But feng shui takes turns, who would have thought that Excite's glory was just a flash in the pan. When Yahoo cut off its own arm and outsourced its search business to Google, Excite thought their opportunity had come, but who knew it would be a mudslide!

Without the slightest precaution, Excite spent the last penny of his pocket in order to merge with At Home Gorp. When the Nasdaq crashed, the stock fell like a dog and could not be sold. When people subscribed, the bank not only refused to lend money, but also asked Excite to pay back the money, Excite collapsed overnight.

Shut down the server, stop operations in Canada, England and other places, and then dismissed 500 employees. The entire Excite has less than [-] people. This is almost a slash at the main artery. This is not enough, and we must continue Dismissing some employees, if no one invests in Excite, then George Bell himself will probably be kicked out, and the entire Excite will basically close down...

Excite is basically the status of the entire Silicon Valley Internet company in the past year. High-rise buildings, banquets, and building collapses. If you are lucky, you will make money by running ahead of time. If you are unlucky, you can only wait for death, especially The founders of Silicon Valley companies are now going bankrupt one after another. How could Silicon Valley venture capital firms and Wall Street let them go.

The founders of countless Silicon Valley companies, who bought luxury houses, sports cars, yachts, and private jets by cutting leeks, are taking them away bit by bit from Silicon Valley venture capital companies and Wall Street institutions. Help the big players, anyway, Wall Street institutions and Bank of America will not admit it, they have to get some back more or less!

It looked like George Bell, who was ten years old, sat there, and his body was full of disappointment, especially when he thought that the acquirer he was going to meet today had been humiliated by him, and he even sent it to his door for 75 US dollars. The purchase price of the knife, George Bell is not willing to offer Google.

Thinking of the next scene, George Bell's face became even more sad. The other Excite executives were all uneasy. They all knew the grievances between Google and Excite, and they didn't know how Google would deal with it. them!
Excite doesn’t want to sell himself to Google either, but now the Internet industry is tightening their belts and barely getting by. Even Yahoo, the landlord’s family, has no money left. The new CEO of Yahoo, Semel, is raising money everywhere. Not on Excite.

Even if there is a company that is slightly interested, after inquiring about the black history of Excite and knowing that they are deadly rivals with Google, they lose interest in an instant, and even delete their business cards and emails, for fear of getting bad luck!

Are you kidding me? Bruno is the most prosperous Internet industry right now. Which company is willing to take the risk of offending Song Yang to acquire Excite? !

Going around, when facing bankruptcy after Christmas, Excite can only be delivered to the door, begging Google to acquire it. Before the Nasdaq collapsed, Google got Song Yang and KPCB Venture Capital to smash it. The huge amount of US dollars, and backed by the North American Global Investment Foundation, is not short of money at all!
There was a sound of footsteps outside the door, and then the door of the conference room was pushed open. George Bell didn't dare to neglect, and hurriedly led a group of executives to greet him.

Irene, dressed in business attire, brought Larry Page, Sergey Brin and other Google executives into the meeting room.

Irene, who was wearing black-rimmed glasses, looked at George Bell. George Bell, who was being watched by Irene, lowered his head slightly unconsciously, taking care of his body. For so many years, Irene has been in a high position Well, the ICQ empire, which has been in charge of a market value of more than 3000 billion US dollars, now naturally has absolute momentum when facing people like George Bell.

"George, this is Irene, the current CEO of Google. I don't think I need to introduce you. You have seen Larry and Sergey!"

Khosla, a KPCB partner who led the investment in Google, came along the same way, and said to George Bell with a smile on his face.

Seeing the groveling in front of him, he was careful not to offend Google's George Bell, and Khosla couldn't help but feel a little "heartache" for his old friend. Of course, it was only for a few seconds, and the rest is just fortunate. George Bell When asked to choose between Excite and Google, Khosla made the right choice!

At the beginning, Khosla asked KPCB Venture Capital to use 10 million US dollars in exchange for [-]% of Google's equity. It seemed that it was sent to the door to be slaughtered, but time proved Khosla's vision.

Now Google is already the largest search giant in America, with a market share of more than 73%, and it is almost dominating one company, including Microsoft MSN, IE browser, Yahoo, and a large group of ICQ and Snow in the Bruno gang camp. Leshan online game platform, PayPal, ebay, Amazon, Wikipedia, Firefox browser, etc., all use Google as the "default" search engine.

Alcatel mobile phones and Apple computers even set Google search to the factory settings, that is, when the user turns on the mobile phone or computer to use, it will be Google search, and the Symbian system will also be equipped with Symbian mobile phones, and the unified default is to use Google. search engine.

Google's Google has been soaring for a long time. In such a downturn in the Internet industry, KPCB Venture Capital, Goldman Sachs and other Silicon Valley Venture Capital and Wall Street institutions still blow up Google's valuation to more than 500 billion US dollars. If the time goes back to a year ago, Google's valuation is estimated to dare to blow out more than [-] billion US dollars!

Khosla even heard rumors that in order to restore Nasdaq’s vitality as soon as possible, Silicon Valley’s venture capital firms, Wall Street institutions, the Federal Securities Commission and other institutions are preparing to “make gods” again. Google is their chosen target, and even urged Go public with Google!

Khosla's investment will definitely not lose money. It depends on how much KPCB can make from Google in this wave.

"Larry, Sergey, it's great to see you again!"

George Bell took the initiative to reach out to Larry Page and Sergey Brin, with a flattering smile on his face, as if he hoped that they would let him and Excite go.

"We can't think of it either!"

Looking at George Bell in front of him, Larry Page, who still wanted "revenge" before coming here, was disappointed, and when they were about to fight a life-and-death duel with boxing gloves on, the other party suddenly knelt down, I don't feel any joy, I just feel dull...

Irene glanced at the two of Larry Page and saw that they didn't seem to want to return George Bell's ridicule to them, and they were not going around with George Bell.

"For $[-] million, Google can buy Excite!"

(End of this chapter)