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"Why...."

In Google's office belonging to Kaos, Kaos finished signing the last document of the day and slumped back on the office chair.

Bullying on American campuses is a very serious matter, and there are very strict management methods. Some small conflicts in private did not alert the teachers and the school, so it was reduced to a major incident. But what Kaos did before was so

flagrant.

Naturally, the school cannot pretend to be invisible. Fortunately, Quan Zhizhong’s family understands and admits that their child did something wrong first. In addition, Kaos secretly promised to donate one million to the school.

U.S. dollars, this is what gets things done.

But even so, Kaos was asked to go home and reflect for a month to fully understand his mistakes.

This satisfies Kaos's needs. Ever since it decided to compete with Yahoo to attract enough attention and traffic, there has been a lot of pressure within Google. Kaos's presence in the company can also calm people's minds.

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Although Kaos previously had people release the news that Google is developing its own portal, this kind of thing is not possible in Yahoo and Google. After any business matures.

Unless latecomers have some new technologies and models that can subvert the former's products, it will be difficult to develop even if they spend ten times the effort to follow the other party.

In this regard, Yahoo cannot compete with Google in terms of online search engines. Google has developed a new portal website. It is completely impossible to compete with Yahoo with this. In the end, it will only be a waste of time and money.

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However, although both parties believe that the other cannot compete with the other in the original field, although online search and portal websites are different, they actually have some things in common.

They are both providing users with services to better find the resources they need on the Internet. Therefore, there are conflicts between the two businesses, especially after Google withdrew from the Yahoo portal, the two companies have been subtly competing in the market.

As Yahoo followed Google into the international market, this competitive situation continued to escalate. It also indirectly achieved Kaos's intention. From time to time, American newspapers would appear where Google and Yahoo appeared.

There is competition, or news about which market Google has won, or Yahoo has won.

With such news, the outside world's valuation of Google continues to rise closely with Yahoo, which also makes Google's second financing go smoothly.

Up to now, more than 20 VCs have been specifically seeking cooperation, just to get some shares in this second round of financing.

While Kaos was resting, the door of the office was opened. Carson walked in from the outside, placed a document in front of Kaos, and said with a smile: "Look, this is

The contract we just negotiated."

"12.5 billion valuation."

Nodding gently, Kaos is still very satisfied with this figure. For the second financing, Kaos plans to raise another 20%. In this way, according to this valuation, 2.5 billion US dollars of funds will enter the company.

, and contribute to future development.

However, as a result, Kaos's shares have dropped to about 50.4%. When Google goes public early next year, it will officially reduce its shares to less than half.

"Yes, but Mr. Mike Moritz is very angry about this financing."

Carson nodded, and then thought about the smile on Mike Moritz's face when he just signed, in order to prevent these VCs from getting bigger in the company and occupying more shareholder positions.

During this second round of financing, Sequoia Capital was given special treatment and only gave half, or 10%, of the financing amount to the other party. What was saved was given to more than a dozen VCs for distribution.

Although this financing requires more money, Sequoia Capital and others are still very active, because those who have met can already see the huge returns that Google will bring when it goes public, and investing in shares at this time is completely profitable.

Nothing to compensate for.

So even though it was very unhappy with this decision, Sequoia Capital gritted its teeth and accepted it.

"That old fox."

Kaos smiled and disapproved, then looked up at Carson and said: "This financing is very critical, and it can just fill the problem of insufficient databases and servers. Let's make this the top priority in the near future.

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In this era when the Internet has just begun to rise, it is still a complete desert, so databases and servers are of little use in the early stages of development. Take the shrinkage of several thousand in the early days of Google software development. Kaos used his own personal computer

That's enough.

But now with the expansion of the market, it is naturally impossible to operate like a workshop like before. With nearly 780 million searches per day, the past methods have naturally changed, and the construction of servers and databases belonging to Google has begun.

And in order to better serve customers, it needs to continue to expand, which requires capital investment. Now the second financing will solve this problem well. It will not provide more resources for other projects.

"The three construction sites in the United States have been determined and the basic construction has been completed. They will be put into use early next year. The remaining sites in Europe and Asia are also being selected now."

The server cluster and database cluster in the United States had been sited as early as February this year and started to be put into use while under construction. After the financing was completed in June, the construction process was accelerated with sufficient funds, and finally it was completed recently.

It has officially started to be fully put into use.

This time, the three addresses in the United States are in New York, Las Vegas, and Houston, forming a triangle on the map of the United States. The existence of these three server groups and database groups will be enough for the company's future development in the next seven or eight years.

Running provides stable help.

"That's good. Our next step is to provide users with more shrinking services, which include servers and databases. In particular, the database must back up more data and build our own database."

For a search system, being able to search for more information is the foundation of the system. However, things on the Internet do not always exist. Kaos wants to establish a database so that others will delete the information they upload to the Internet. However,

But he wants to preserve it here.

This is a long-term project, and in the end it must be like a book that can be passed down to people hundreds or thousands of years later to help them understand the current world.

"Understood, I have been working with several national libraries recently, hoping to cooperate and upload more materials to our database."

Carson naturally understands the purpose of Kaos, and this will also be the social responsibility that Google will bear in the future.

Some people think of social responsibility as a kind of contribution to society, but smart capitalists regard it as an investment. Just like the map navigation system of later generations is not actually profitable, but for many express delivery, takeaway, etc.

Internet companies, on the other hand, have to continuously invest in shares and invest in each other without complaining even if they lose money.

This is because when map navigation serves the public, the public may not be able to pay for it, but companies that also need it have already given support. This means that this company may not make money, but it will never go bankrupt.

And the future of Google is also developing towards this assurance. When Google carries more and more data in dozens or hundreds of years, it will no longer be a company that provides online search services, but a database of human civilization.

library.

At that time, even if Google had no income, society would not be able to shut down such a treasure. Instead, it would continue to invest money to allow it to continue to expand.