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"Bill, there have been rumors that we are going to disband the browser project team recently, and several Mosaic backbones have submitted applications for resignation. I would like to ask if this rumor is true or not?" Joe John, the personnel director, walked into Bill office, said to Bill who was working hard.

"Just let them go." Bill continued to deal with the work at hand while talking. After reconciling with Eden, Microsoft's crisis was temporarily lifted, so various things naturally increased. After this incident, Bill In order to be able to better control the company, he took back part of the rights that were originally released, and thus increased a lot of workload. In an instant, I felt back to the passion and passion I had when I started my business many years ago.

Listening to Bill's nonchalant words, Joe John asked hesitantly, "So it's true that the browser project team will be cancelled?"

"Yes! The browser project team will officially announce the cancellation at the departmental meeting in a few days later." Bill temporarily put down his work. He doesn't care about the ideas of a few small programmers, but the ideas of the middle and high-level must be taken into account. , otherwise it may affect the stability of the company. Although it is not yet the time to make an official announcement, it will not have much impact sooner or later, so he raised his head and said: "However, I am going to make the mosaic browser independent. Come out and set up a dedicated web browser department, and it will be our next major project."

"But, didn't we just reach an agreement with Eden?" Joe John asked a little confused when he heard Bill's words.

Bill tapped his fingers on the table, looked at Joe and said, "But there is no provision in the agreement that we stop developing and distributing browsers, not to mention I think Eden is very clear that the agreement is just a temporary truce, although We were at a disadvantage in the previous situation, but if they really want to fight us in an all-out war, they will not be much better. Of course, I don’t mean to say that we will not abide by this agreement at all, but in this world, there are many ways to bypass the agreement Yes, but it's a little more troublesome."

"I see." Joe and John nodded. Now that Bill has figured it out, he naturally knows what to do: "Since we want to focus on the development of browsers, should we start recruiting relevant programmers?"

"Yes, it would be better if you have been engaged in browser development, but you are not limited to this. In addition, you can try to find some mature programmers from the Garden of Eden. The more core the better, after proving his After we have the ability, we can be responsible for repaying the compensation to Eden, and giving rewards and compensation, I believe there will always be someone who needs this.” Bill tapped on the table and said slowly, although they signed the strike Agreement, but the competition between them has already started in full swing, but it has moved down from the obvious.

"I know, I'll start collecting data later, and make a valuation sheet for all their employees, and give it to you after the monthly meeting." Joe John has dealt with many of these things, although Eden seems to be more than before The opponent is many times more troublesome, but the essence is not much different to him.

"In addition to Nirvana, as far as I know, they have taken actions recently. If possible, I would like to know what they will do next?" Bill added that compared to Eden, Nirvana is the most scruples in his heart. Has it been downloaded over 2.0 million in just half a year, with millions of active users, or is it just a rumored new project so far, although it is not as good as the Garden of Eden, it is still an existence that should not be underestimated. It is easy to knock down a Garden of Eden, and soon another Garden of Eden [-] emerges.

"Okay." Joe John agreed naturally, and left Bill's office when he saw that there was no other request.

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Compared to Microsoft, which knew its shame and acted courageously, and planned a counterattack plan about how to get revenge early, Eden, or Adam, still proceeded as planned. This time the action exceeded expectations, but even so, it was not worth much. As for the celebration, it can only be said that the plans made before have not been in vain, but in this long-term competition with Microsoft, Adam and Carol must not relax at all, otherwise they may be completely defeated by the other party. Into the abyss, and in this feast of rapid Internet development, there are many rising stars looking forward to take Adam's place.

Of course, although Adam did not make a new plan for Microsoft, it does not mean that Adam has stopped moving. This time, the competition with Microsoft has been well resolved by Eden, and there are no obvious sequelae, but Some problems were also exposed, among which the one that made Adam the most vigilant was the call about the Eden monopoly that Microsoft had shouted.

Although relying on Adam's personal elongation, and mobilizing all the media in his hands to control the field, and Microsoft is not going to really fight in this regard, etc., the voice of monopoly disappeared in a few days, but it was knocked down by Adam. A wake-up call, if this continues, the Garden of Eden may really involve monopoly. The scale of the network is not large now, and many predators can't figure it out. , even if you still haven't understood the development and gameplay of the Internet, it is absolutely impossible for Adam to swallow it by himself.

In fact, Adam was worried about this when he wanted to list Inspur and Unicorn separately. Although some of them wanted to make money by listing separately, Adam was more worried about monopoly accusations. However, facing Microsoft Adam must also arm an opponent that Microsoft is not so easy to swallow as soon as possible, so he can only forcibly merge Eden in a short period of time to bring its valuation closer to Microsoft.

Adam's approach is still effective. The crowding effect has doubled the valuation of Eden in just half a year. Knowing that there is no way to decide the outcome with Eden in a short period of time, if there is a snipe and clam fight, it will be cheaper for others, coupled with internal instability, this is a temporary agreement with Eden.

However, the threat planted by this has continued to the present, but so far, although ICQ has more than [-] million users in a short period of time, which is extremely gratifying, it has no ability to make profits, and Adam does not want to tie up advertisements. I don't want to reduce the favorability of users because of this. Secondly, the advertising alliance is new after all, and the price that can be offered is really not high. It is not worth losing the love of users for this little money.

Another product that will be promoted in the second half of the year is basically facing the same problem. The cultivation of the number of users of the other one may be a little more difficult than ICQ. What's more, these are all Adam's Internet products. Even if they are independent and independent, but because Adam occupies the main shares and the company's control, they will still be considered as Adam's products. High probability of being judged negative.

Therefore, Adam is faced with the hope that another good company on the Internet will come out to share his pressure, but he does not want the other party to squeeze the space of Eden and Adam products to form competition. After integrating various interests, Adam decided to set up a An angel fund dedicated to 'supporting' Internet companies.

This angel fund, which Adam called 'Raphael', was [-] million US dollars at the beginning. He found a professional team to help him manage this angel fund. Raphael is oriented to the entire Internet, no matter whether it has a product Internet companies, or simply think that their ideas are good enough, can apply to Rafael, but Rafael will divide these evaluation conditions into several grades based on Adam's list, the importance of each grade and The amount of capital injection is different, and Adam will choose among them to invest in those with brighter ideas, or development potential.

Of course, Adam established this angel investment fund not only because he wanted to recruit as many Internet companies as possible, but also to hide his prophetic ability about the Internet. In this way, he spread the net widely, but hid what he really wanted, and focused on developing it. , in addition to avoiding being caught fire, so that more people in the financial circle can be infected, share the pressure, and build alliances, but also hope to spread their own power, so that even if that part encounters problems that cannot be done at that time, there is still room transfer.

But these are things that come later. Adam established the first project of this angel investment fund, or at this point in time, the establishment of this Internet angel investment fund is to be able to start with a company that may grow into an industry giant in the future.

Although this company is just a penniless small company, it has only been established for a few months, even if Adam wants to, he can set up a better and more complete company of the same type.

But the Internet covers such a large area, it is impossible for Adam to collect all of it by himself, and he can't take care of it. Even with Carol's help, let it grow on its own, although Adam's shares will certainly not be as big as the company he controls. Many, but also to avoid monopoly complaints.

Of course, in addition to the above reasons, there is another very important thing that Adam has many things he wants to do. Although the Internet is profitable, he is not prepared to devote all his energy to it. places to spend more time, such as TV movies and novels.