Fight to the third generation

Su Yehao never stopped them, but a few of them tried to divert people from TAT and played the trick of "cooperating inside and outside".

As far as his assets are diversified, he won't be hurt if one or two companies go wrong, so even if the knife is tortured in the end, Su Yehao can accept it.

Other companies compete all the way to the top. If the market share is so high that they can fail, he would rather backhand invest in competitors, so as not to continue wasting time on junk assets.

……

It was past ten o'clock that night.

Su Yehao accidentally received an email from the CEO of Google, who hoped to acquire a Nasdaq-listed company called Priceline as soon as possible, and wanted the board of directors to approve it as soon as possible.

According to Eric Boyle, the current CEO of Google, he is in a meeting in New York and had contact with the CEO of Priceline this morning. It is estimated that only a small premium will be required to get the other company to agree to the acquisition and directly privatize and delist .

There is not much money on Google's books. After seeing the email, Su Yehao first went to check the market value of Priceline, and found that it was only a mere 6000 million US dollars, which instantly reassured him.

After learning about Priceline, Su Yehao was surprised to find that it was actually an Internet company that provides online ordering for hotels, air tickets, car rentals, etc. It created a service platform for passengers and was founded in 1998.

He checked and found that there were several similar companies, and this company was relatively large.

The business prospect is quite broad, and there is every opportunity to take Google to the next level by annexing it and creating a new business similar to Google Reviews.

In this regard, I can only say that Jiang is still old and spicy. The acquisition target selected by Eric Boyle made Su Yehao very satisfied. It is not eye-catching, but also has great market prospects. The key is that it is cheap...

Chapter 830

Although it was enough for Su Yehao to make a decision, but due to the company's rules and regulations, the process that should be followed still had to be followed.

The Yanmoji Group just happened to develop a beta version of an online video program, internally code-named "Super Bell", a tribute to Alexander Bell, the father of the telephone.

This development team has been preparing since the end of the previous year and absorbed many related development teams. The products produced are relatively mature, and they will only wait for the right time to launch them on the market.

At present, ICQ has just opened the internal test of the voice message function, and even the online voice function has not been activated.

It's not impossible.

It is mainly a group of communication industry giants who have long been unhappy with the Yanmoji Group. They feel that the development of the Internet has caused a large number of customers to lose SMS and phone calls. It is better not to stimulate them in the short term.

Smartphones in the true sense have not yet appeared. It is obviously not a wise decision to wrestle with a bunch of communication industry giants for a small profit. Yanwen Group still lacks time to develop, and the background is not enough.

Su Yehao took some time for Eric Boyle to finish the installation, and asked the Google CEO to find other directors and start a conference call.

It was very smooth during the test in the United States. Although Pengcheng has broadband, after all, there is a Pacific Ocean in the middle, and the lag is a bit obvious.

A group of directors of Google gathered in front of the computer, such as Danielle Kenning, Google's chief operating officer, and Larry Page, who voluntarily gave up the position of CEO but was still working at Google.

Danielle Kenning was surprised at this time: "You don't need other equipment, you can connect a camera and a microphone to video? This is amazing. Investing in this company will definitely become popular!"

As expected of an old employee in the venture capital industry, when he saw this "Super Bell" video chat program, he immediately thought of investing in shares.

Su Yehao replied:

"This is a product that is undergoing internal beta testing. It will directly join ICQ and TVT in the future. I don't intend to make it independent. It will only make users feel troubled. A product with emoji is enough."

Larry Page laughed and said:

"I knew that if it could be improved, it would be a perfect fit for the Kaomoji Group's product. Sue, Pete Brito, one of the founders of Paypal, asked me to say hello to you for him. He has a brilliant plan, and Perfect team, I want to talk to you about starting a business.”

Su Yehao remembered that guy.

The other party sold the shares of Paypal and left with a group of people. It is said that they are very capable.

Silicon Valley says it’s not big, but it’s not small. It seems to be more open and inclusive, but it’s actually a society of personal relationships with a unique set of “survival rules.”

In Silicon Valley, anyone who likes to have fun can find a party almost every day, and the idea is to make some new friends so that they can come in handy when the time comes.

And a wealthy and powerful Silicon Valley tycoon like Su Yehao is undoubtedly the type of successful person who stands at the top of the social chain and is courted by countless people. There are many entrepreneurial teams who try to find him.

Before the real success, even if the valuation reaches hundreds of millions of dollars or more than one billion dollars, they dare not really call it a success. Most entrepreneurs actually only hope to sell their products at a good price at the right time to achieve financial freedom. can.

So it's not surprising that, like Pete Britto, the rapids retreated.

After they have funds, they can suddenly become investors again, and there are also many people who start their own businesses for the second time.

At [-]:[-] p.m. Pengcheng time, Su Yehao didn't fall asleep, and replied, "I remember Pete Britto, what kind of new projects does he have?"

Larry Page replied:

"It's a crazy plan. After the meeting, I sent an email to explain in detail. He didn't tell me the whole plan for the time being. He just had an idea. I think there is a possibility of success."

"Okay, then let's start the meeting."

Su Yehao faced the camera and stated:

"I agree to acquire Priceline. Its business can make up for Google's shortcomings and add a channel to monetize users. The premium is controlled within 15%, which I think is acceptable."

"But I am worried that the acquisition of such a company will cause us to lose many advertising customers. Many companies that book hotels and air tickets are our company's major customers."

Speaking was Ms. Danielle Kenning, Chief Operating Officer.

At the beginning, she was arranged by Su Yehao from KOKO Venture Capital to work at Google, and she was also present on the day when the so-called anti-link company was acquired.

Originally, it was just improvisation, but Danielle Kenning was very adaptable to the new position, managed Google in an orderly manner, and successfully received a small amount of equity rewards.

Su Yehao smiled and told:

"I admit that we will lose some advertising revenue, but as long as we successfully win Priceline, it can help us earn more in the future. Google needs to be different from Yahoo, reflecting its advantages and differences, such as Google Encyclopedia, ticketing and car rental. A class of functions can increase user bonding, and the same is true for the video sharing social business you are preparing for.”

Google CEO Eric Boyle nodded and agreed: "My opinion is similar. After the acquisition of Priceline, its performance will explode, and it has the opportunity to increase our valuation by a billion dollars."

"A billion dollars? Then pretend I didn't say..."

Danielle Kenning smiled and seemed to believe in Eric Boyle's point of view, which shows that the two sides cooperated well.

Su Yehao smiled slightly, thinking that a billion dollars is impossible, as long as the business is done well, adding an extra zero is considered so-so.

The atmosphere of companies like Google, where everyone goes hand in hand and catches up with Yahoo and other companies, is exactly what mainland Internet companies lack.

Su Yehao spent money and creativity in the mainland Internet market, which can be called a push all the way. Competitors didn't even make a splash, and disappeared into the cold winter of the Internet.

It's great to monopolize the market, but Su Yehao is also worried that they will be like Yahoo. One day, because of the lack of corporate culture, lack of identity, cohesion, etc., they will be overthrown by latecomers.

Although Su Yehao is rich, but other investors are likely to surpass him in strength.

In September of 2002, Silicon Valley showed signs of bottoming out. It is believed that the Internet market in the mainland will soon blossom, and a group of potential companies will emerge, which are just suitable for use as a whetstone.

If there is an opportunity, some teams can be acquired and merged, and fresh blood can be injected into companies such as TAT ​​and TOT. If Internet companies want to survive and grow, they must compete with each other, and it is difficult to coexist.

This is mainly because in many cases, users often only need one product of the same type, leading to examples of dragon-slaying teenagers becoming evil dragons everywhere.

Yahoo's management is just chaotic and lacks a bit of aggressiveness, so it was torn off a large part of its market share by Google. It is still a company with a market value of more than 470 billion US dollars, but it is constantly being looked down upon by investors.

This shows how fierce the competition in the industry is.

Therefore, Su Yehao would rather sacrifice some short-term interests, and also want to create some difficulties for enterprises such as Tiaobao and TAT, and does not intend to help them in everything.

According to his idea, he will give a sum of start-up funds one by one in the near future, and if he wants to get money in the future, he can only raise money or go public by himself.

The idle funds in the account are reserved for the concentrated firepower to develop the semiconductor industry. The wafer foundry industry is piled up with money, and the research and development of lithography machines is the same. The competitive pressure is enough.

It is worth mentioning that.

As early as March this year, Canon's team broke up with Su Yehao's team, and the previously signed cooperation agreement was also voided.

The root cause is that Canon teamed up with Nikon to break through the 157nm lithography machine technology. They did not want to provide the new technology to Su Yehao's R&D team.

Su Yehao paid for the research and development funds, and they just asked them to produce people and technology, and even this was covered up.

On the other hand, Canon and Nikon have invested a huge amount of research and development funds in new technologies, and of course they don't want anyone to be able to break through their technological blockade.

They simply kept doing nothing, found some reason to withdraw the scientific research team, and voluntarily tore up the cooperation agreement, leaving Dr. Lin Baojian and others in a mess in the wind.

The foundation of cooperation, of course, quickly disintegrated and ceased to exist.

……

Chapter 831 Big Data Going Wrong

It was past eleven o'clock in the evening.

After finishing the video conference, Su Yehao sat in front of the computer and dozed off. After waiting patiently for a while, he finally received the email from Larry Page.

The other party just mentioned that Peter Brito, one of the former founders of Paypal, had a crazy business plan.

It's crazy from Larry Page's point of view, so it's probably a little bit interesting.

This guy has been the CEO of Google for so long. If he is willing to sell Google shares, he is worth [-] to [-] million U.S. dollars. He has been exposed to various entrepreneurial projects, and his vision is probably not too bad.

After all, it's not his mother tongue, and it involves a lot of professional vocabulary. Su Yehao looked up some words before he could fully understand the email. Even he was dumbfounded.

in short.

After Paypal was acquired by Yanmoji Group last year, Pete Brito, who had worked with Elon Musk, got about $900 million to try to start a second business.

At the beginning of the year, several super code farmers who graduated from the Department of Computer Science of Stanford University were organized by Peter Brito, who left Paypal, to start a small studio-like company.

After the 11 incident last year, there was a contradiction between security and personal privacy. Pete Brito hoped to solve this problem by means of technology, and developed a product model that uses data analysis. After inputting a large amount of public information, use The computer builds a model of character relationships and eventually locks down a bunch of suspicious characters.

The most amazing thing is that these suspicious targets are basically consistent with the targets found by the CIA and the FBI after spending a lot of manpower and material resources. Therefore, the CIA intends to place an order and outsource the integrated information retrieval and data analysis business to Pete Britto team.

It's a pity that they are not strong enough for the time being, and they need to strengthen their team and obtain more funds to obtain this order.

In other words, the studio has just started for half a year and has already found a big client.

But Larry Page also mentioned in the email that although he thinks that the products made by Peter Brito's team are very innovative, he must be careful when cooperating with these organizations. Once they pass the line, they will easily arouse the anger of netizens .

Of course, Su Yehao is very aware of the importance of protecting personal privacy. The large Internet companies in Silicon Valley have held private meetings in the form of salons for this purpose. Under pressure, they have to make some compromises and only promise to provide users with public information and data.

Fortunately, products such as TAT ​​and TVT, Google and TOT have been clearly separated from the beginning. Otherwise, the Internet business in the mainland may also be affected.

Leaving aside those messy things, just talking about the company's entrepreneurial goal, isn't it big data in Su Yehao's eyes?

It’s no wonder that Larry Page is concerned about this kind of product that can integrate huge amounts of information and data for analysis and processing. It’s a relatively new concept. Not only Paypal can be used, but Google’s search and advertising business, the mainland’s credit treasure, TOT and other products can also be used.

As for the above outsourcing orders, Su Yehao doesn't think much of them. If there is a chance to directly win Peter Brito and his team, it is very likely that Google's development will reach a new level, and it will strengthen the popularity of Paypal and Xinxinbao among users. Security in the field of fraud prevention.

If you have the opportunity to develop alone, I believe that the other party is unlikely to like being abused, and hide in the shadows to cooperate with those institutions. The importance of big data is far more than just finding people.

Even if Su Yehao doesn't know much about it, he can think of many wonderful uses. In addition to serving Internet companies and providing personalized services, there are also anti-money laundering, tax evasion arrest, and data collection. They are only used to help the CIA arrest people, which is simply overkill.

Faced with such an investment project, how could Su Yehao not be tempted? He replied to the email immediately, saying that he would let KOKO Venture Capital communicate with Peter Brito, and then sent an email to Lin Youfeng, the head of Silicon Valley of KOKO Venture Capital, asking him to Take as much equity as possible...

……

Wake up.

Taking advantage of the cool weather in the morning, I took Jiang Yu and the others for a walk in their yard.

When designing this villa, I spent nearly [-] million yuan in it. The trees and flowers in the yard were carefully selected from all over the country. There are eight hundred-year-old osmanthus trees, and there are also ancient camellia trees. , Podocarpus, etc., reflect the delicacy everywhere.

Nangong Tian heard the noise coming from a distance, and asked curiously: "Is construction going to start around here? Why does it start to make noise so early in the morning?"

Su Yehao replied calmly: "It may be that Vera's house is being renovated. Yesterday I stood on the attic of the Lingxiao Terrace and found that it was almost completed. I directly borrowed the style of my villa, which saved a lot of trouble, but she only had A small yard."

"...Villa Andrade?"

With suspicious eyes, Nangong Tian teased: "Oh, really, I still have a wicked heart, trying to find ways to let people live next door, so Brother Hao, you can get the moon first, right? Men still like the new and hate the old after all, I have seen through it."

"At that time, I asked her to paint. She liked the environment here, so she used the land to offset the cost of inviting her to create. Didn't I tell you that now that the house is almost finished, you just settled the old score. Isn't it a bit late?"

"...Hmph, you actually killed me because of Vera."

"???"

Seeing her smiling, Su Yehao knew that she was teasing him, and said speechlessly, "Heavenly conscience, I really have nothing to do with her. Before, there were people who were ruthless and wanted to go on a blind date with me. Recently, they have become insulators."

After listening, Jiang Yu looked over, rolled his eyes and said, "Why is no one asking you for a blind date? You don't know what to do? You've almost made a mahjong table, and you want to become a basketball team or a football team?"

Thinking in his heart that he had already assembled a table of mahjong, Su Yehao couldn't help but upturned his mouth:

"I was bullied again by your team. I'm afraid of you. I will go to Dr. Lin Baojian's place later, and I will ask someone to come over to deliver the paintings. You can help me to keep an eye on them. I bought them for 1000 million. Remember to be serious." examine."

This oil painting has no name, so it is called "29·09·64". It is named after the date and was created in [-]. It is more than two meters high and three meters wide. It is intended to be hung in the corridor outside the bedroom.

Su Yehao went out first after packing up.

Pass the customs by car and go to the Semiconductor Industrial Park in the North District of Gangcheng.

Lin Baojian and his team have a research institute, which is located in the North District Semiconductor Industrial Park, next to the Fanling Course of Hong Kong City Golf Club.

Although Canon was short-sighted and chose to withdraw researchers, it actually did not delay the research and development plan too much, and ASML directly topped it.

Although ASML's current technology is not as good as Japan's Canon lithography machine, but because Japan's Nikon and Canon have launched 157nm lithography machines, further occupying a dominant position in the market, ASML has no choice but to take Su Yehao's team. As a life-saving straw, we can only do our best to support, both money and effort.

Coupled with the fact that it is not restricted by Europe and the United States, and can cooperate with top universities and scientific research institutions, the research and development progress is faster than before, and the speed of burning money is also accelerated.