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"What? Have you decided on the next financing time?"

Carson looked at Kaos with a smile, and when he saw the confidence on his face, he knew that the boy in front of him already had a plan.

During the year that the two met, Carson also knew a lot about Kaos. He seemed young, but he was very calm in doing things. He often made decisions before making decisions, taking one step at a time and seeing the next.

Since Kaos said this, there must be a complete plan.

Kaos glanced at the staff present and felt that it was not a suitable place to talk. He gestured and took Carson back to his office.

"Take a look at this."

Sitting back on the office chair, Kaos handed a document to Carson.

“Competing with Yahoo?”

After opening the file and looking at it carefully, Carson understood what was going on, but then his brows frowned slightly.

Kaos's plan is actually very simple and crude, that is, to restart the previous competition with Yahoo. The previous competition in online search, Yahoo brought huge pressure to Google, but at the same time, it also greatly increased Google's popularity.

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It’s just that the time was too short, and Yahoo retreated too quickly, so the effect was not particularly significant. Now Kaos’s plan is that since Yahoo doesn’t compete specifically with Google, Google will pursue Yahoo on the pole.

compete.

This wave of hype is quite a bit like trying to attract traffic for future generations. It is because Yahoo is the giant of the Internet. No matter what it does, it will attract attention. As long as Google is linked to Yahoo and becomes its biggest competitor, its market value will naturally follow.

Yahoo's growing together.

A rising tide lifts all boats. As long as Yahoo's market value grows, Google, Yahoo's biggest rival, will naturally become more valuable.

This kind of competitive relationship will not be shaken at least in the next year, because next year, 1999 will be the most crazy time for Yahoo's market value growth. From more than 10 billion, the stock price will rise crazily to 128 billion US dollars in January 2000.

Then the Internet bubble burst, and Yahoo never returned to its peak. Instead, it fell into dust.

Kaos just wants to take advantage of this critical moment to ride on Yahoo's popularity, ride on the other party's coattails, and drive Google's stock price after it goes public early next year, so that it can rise crazily together with Yahoo's stock price.

Kaos is very clear that compared to various Internet companies in later generations, Google actually does not have any advantage, and is even at a disadvantage.

It is because of online search that netizens use it frequently. However, relatively speaking, the influence is not very great because the user stickiness of online search engines is too low. If they don’t need to use it, no one will open it at all.

google.

It is far inferior to instant messaging software like Penguin. All users’ connections are on it, and it is difficult to break away from the network woven by Penguin. This is also the reason why in later generations of Penguin, almost people will scold it, but they can’t stop using it.

Just because your social connections are already there, even if Penguin makes any mistakes in decision-making, it will still take a long time to get back on track.

But as long as Google has software that can replace its online search, it may not take half a month, and it will disappear from the market.

It is also because of this that later generations of Google will continue to cross industries, just to reduce the impression of the company on online search engines and prevent it from becoming the company's only pillar.

Kaos is doing the same thing now, but such cross-industry requires time and accumulation step by step, and it is impossible to achieve it in one step.

This also makes the current development of Google less than the craziness of Yahoo, hence the plan of Kaos.

"Isn't this too dangerous?"

After fully reading Kaos' plan, Carson was a little hesitant and hesitant.

The reason why Yahoo is sought after by investors is not only because it is the first Internet company to find a profit point, but also because of Yahoo's corporate philosophy: the Internet of Everything.

The concept of the Internet of Everything was not something that only emerged when the Internet developed in later generations, but existed as early as the early days, and Yahoo was the first company to implement this concept.

It’s just that this concept is not very mature yet, and there are some big differences from the Internet of Everything in later generations.

Now Yahoo's Internet of Everything is just to use the Yahoo portal as the core of the entire Internet, use Yahoo to connect various websites in the entire Internet, and turn them into a whole.

When the plan is completed, all users who access the Internet, no matter which website they log in to, are actually in Yahoo's network and are just sub-websites of Yahoo.

This is a set of grand plans. If Kaos was not a reborn person and heard about Yahoo's development plan, he would probably lie dormant. Like Google and Facebook in later generations, they wanted to be acquired by Yahoo and become a member of the Yahoo Kingdom.

Carson, who stands as an Internet person in this era, also understands the greatness of Yahoo, so he was very hesitant after seeing Kaos' plan. In his opinion, although Google is developing well now, it still has a different relationship with Yahoo.

A big gap.

Such a blatant challenge to Yahoo's authority may lead to crazy pressure from the other party. By then, the pressure on Google will probably be much more intense than the previous competitive test.

What's more important is that VCs, that is, capital, will not support Google. In the eyes of VCs, Google is only a part of Yahoo in the future. Just like they did not participate in the battle before, they will not help Google in the future, or even be indispensable.

Behind the scenes, Yahoo helps Yahoo.

They allow Google to fight against Yahoo just to sell Google's shares at a high price, but they will never allow Yahoo to fail.

Because Google has not yet shown them the benefits that are even greater than Yahoo's "Internet of Everything". People who can become a VC don't just look at current people, they look at more long-term benefits.

"I also understand your concerns, so we are only competing on the surface. Privately, we can propose the idea of ​​being acquired by Yahoo, but I hope the price can be higher."

The advantage of knowing the general development path of the times is that Kaos can see far enough. Overt competition will make Google's market value higher, but secretly the idea of ​​being acquired by Yahoo will alleviate the worries of VCs.

As long as this situation persists until January 2000, I am afraid that by that time Kaos wants to sell Google to Yahoo, and the other party will not be able to bear it, and will have no energy to acquire Google.

Of course, Kaos did not explain this deeper plan to Carson in detail.

"Haha, no problem, I will make Yahoo pay a price that makes them feel painful. When the time comes, we will also join Yahoo's board of directors and become their major shareholders."

Carson, who didn't know Kaos's complete plan, just thought that Kaos wanted to sell Google at a good price, so he agreed with a smile. He had mentioned it to the other party before, but Kaos didn't agree.

Now I finally figured it out and am ready to board the aircraft carrier of Yahoo.