Rebirth of the 92 Business Tycoon

The window was open, and the cool breeze blew in with the green habit of blooming vegetation. It was actually very cool, but Feng Yiping still felt very hot.

He habitually rolls up his sleeves, but he touches his sweaty arm. He is now wearing a short-sleeved white T-shirt from Google.

You should know that this is Silicon Valley in May, and it is still indoors. It shouldn't happen in fact.

Because the Bay Area is surrounded by the sea on three sides and affected by the California cold current, Silicon Valley has a typical Mediterranean climate, which is cool in summer.

For this climate, American writer Mark Twain, who we all know at least, has a very classic summary, "The coldest winter I have experienced is the summer in San Francisco."

Although the sun looks bright, the temperature is actually not high, only about 20 degrees on average. Today’s forecast is only 18 degrees.

In such weather, Feng Yiping, who is able to raise qi skills well now and hardly suffers severe mood swings, is a sweaty guy who is naturally not a waiting person, mainly Peppa who also wears the company's gray t-shirt.

"Business is a business man," Feng Yiping couldn't help but knock a few times on the table. "Yes, all the services we launched are to serve the public, change the world, and make the world a better place. I fully agree with this, too. Very supportive,"

"But, ipo is ipo, subscription is subscription. Investors subscribe to our stocks. What they first want is not to make the world a better place. They want good returns, right? We can't ask everyone to agree with our views. ,"

"What's more, our ipo, because it is auction-style pricing, will give more ordinary people the opportunity to subscribe for our stocks. How can we expect them to use a small amount of funds to support our dreams?"

"First of all, there are many people who approve of our ideas. Secondly, we are not without rewards. I insist on not paying dividends, but I firmly believe that we can bring them greater returns, so that they should not pay too much attention to short-term stock price fluctuations," Page Still water can't enter.

What they are arguing about now is naturally some of the issues in the prospectus, about his "no dividends" statement.

In fact, the two-day conference room is currently the most noticeable place for Google, which is relatively not very busy. Many guys passed by with excuses, or simply passed by outside, just to see how the three of them look inside. Very intense "discussion,"

Especially Feng Yiping, he has always been a very gentle person in the impression of Googlers.

But the performance of the past few days has completely changed everyone's image of him. Some seniors even said with satisfaction, "If you see it, this is the real Google person!"

The reason they say this is because under the influence of the two weird works of Page and Brin, the early Google meetings have always been full of punches, blood on the sword, and relentless arguments.

The reason why Feng Yiping behaves so aggressively now is because the two guys opposite are his own partners, not their subordinates, and they can only persuade rather than command.

But to convince them, Feng Yiping sometimes really wants to hit the wall.

"Yes, I certainly believe that we can bring a very large return to investors, hundreds of millions of dollars, billions of dollars, even tens of billions of dollars in return,"

Hearing this, Brin touched Page and said that Feng, this buddy, really has confidence in the company and brings 1 billion returns to investors. They thought about it, but it was 10 billion. That really didn't really think about it.

"But, you have to understand that, in the eyes of many investors, the probability that we can bring a return of $1 billion for everyone will definitely not be greater than 10%, right?"

This is of course certain. No matter how good a company is, no one will surely believe that it will bring high returns. Otherwise, people like Mr. Buffett will not be so rare.

"Furthermore, in the specific operation, we can do this completely, so in the prospectus, there is no need to add such a strong emotional color and easy to cause adverse effects, okay?"

Feng Yiping, who has participated in the preparations for the listing twice, really thinks this is the most difficult one. In the past, he only needed to encourage the preparation team to work hard. This time, he had to do the work of these two guys first.

"Well, I agree to delete this one, but other things, I insist, this is me...,"

Page did not finish speaking, the door of the conference room was "kang" opened, Schmidt walked in anxiously, "Everyone, we are in trouble."

"You can tell from the way you look," Peppa, who had just made some concessions, was not too happy.

"What's the matter?" Feng Yiping and Brin both asked.

"For our browser, Microsoft officially responded," Schmidt Young said in the newspaper in which he started. "Dean, the head of their IE department, told reporters that our products are full of loopholes, and mandatory bundled search terms are also restricted. Everyone’s choice,"

"Are they embarrassed to say such a thing?" Page immediately took the scene.

Indeed, this is really inappropriate for Microsoft.

The IE browser breaks out vulnerabilities from time to time, and the Microsoft operating system breaks out vulnerabilities from time to time, just like those experts are always beaten in the face, it is not news for a long time.

This year is a high-incidence period, ie, address spoofing vulnerabilities, vulnerabilities in bypassing system operation programs, and vulnerabilities in triggering pop-up advertisements...

The most serious is naturally the "shockwave" worm vulnerability that broke out at the end of April and has just subsided.

As for compulsory bundling, please, this is simply synonymous with Microsoft, good or not, and because of the issue of money-assisted sales, Microsoft has been troubled by one country more than once.

"I have to remind you that we are in a quiet period now," Schmidt said.

"Despicable!" Feng Yiping and the others said almost simultaneously.

Unexpectedly, giants like Microsoft will also take advantage of their vulnerabilities for a while.

"More than that," Schmidt took out a document. "We received feedback. Some users said that Microsoft's own security software treats our browser as a virus and uninstalls our browser from his device. ," (Yes, Microsoft has also done such a thing as bad as some domestic companies)

"Huh?" The third brother who heard this opened his mouth at the same time. Is there such a thing?

"Yes," Schmidt nodded willingly. "On the forum, we have received more than one feedback."

"Shameless!" The three said a word at the same time as if they had rehearsed.

This time, even Brin took a shot on the table.

"How to deal with this matter?" Schmidt walked around in the conference room with his hips akimbo. "Look, I have said long ago, we must be cautious about browsers, we must be cautious now. We are not in strength with Microsoft. It’s big, but you just insist,"

He didn't listen to what the old man said, "Look now,"

In fact, what he said is indeed not unreasonable.

The reason why Microsoft is so unproductive and so innocent this time is because the free browser launched by Google really poses a threat to it.

Especially this year, it can be said that IE was launched in a bad year, which really annoyed Microsoft.

Before the launch of Google Chrome, Microsoft's IE has already encountered revenge this year. Another major browser on the market, the browser that has just been renamed to Firefox, has caused problems in some areas. The market share has exceeded 30%, and success has become a major concern for Microsoft.

It is revenge because, to a certain extent, Firefox has inherited Netscape's mantle.

The once brilliant Netscape can be said to be the life and death of Microsoft.

But Netscape is also somewhat farsighted.

In January of 1998, in response to the fact that it was losing ground in the competition with Microsoft IE, Netscape began to implement the "mozilla plan." Even in November of that year, after Netscape was acquired by AOL, in terms of research and development, mozilla organized Still did not stop his steps.

By May of last year, the AOL v. Microsoft monopoly case was settled. One of the conditions was that Aol agreed to dissolve Netscape and suspend its subordinate businesses. It can be seen that Microsoft is still quite jealous of Netscape.

On July 15 of the same year (the day when AOL shut down all Netscape businesses), the mozilla organization was officially registered as a non-profit organization, and officially changed its name to the Mozilla Foundation, and launched the predecessor of Firefox, the Phoenix browser.

As a result, the well-known Murphy's Law was also applied to giants like Microsoft. Netscape, which has been lingering forever, actually used this method to give them a heavy blow this year.

You know that at the end of last year, Microsoft accounted for at least 96% of the entire browser market share.

But one wave is not over, another wave rises again, Firefox is embracing and attacking the city, and Google will suddenly come out and stab Microsoft in the waist—they launched their own browser silently.

Like Firefox, it's free, and the installed capacity is rising rapidly.

Microsoft clearly knows that, compared to the Firefox browser with a revenge mission to a certain extent, the threat posed by Google's browser is even more deadly because of its success in the search business.

So they responded quickly. They must give this disobedient junior a colorseesee as soon as possible. If a tiger does not send a cat, do you think I am critically ill?

Because of the fierce response, their timing was indeed a bit inauthentic.

Of course, the approach, especially the latter approach, is even less authentic.

Because of Schmidt’s questioning, it faintly pointed to Feng Yiping—after all, he made the suggestion of developing a browser. Page and Brin immediately objected.

"I don't think there is anything wrong with our persistence. Haven't you seen the data of our business after the browser was launched? Both have risen sharply, so this is a good decision. This is a good product. ," Page said.

"Yes, Microsoft's response is a powerful illustration of this," Brin said.

"The problem is, if the browser is not listed at this critical time, our IPO will go smoothly, and now, because of Microsoft's response, it is likely to affect our IPO,"

Schmidt knows that Microsoft’s influence, whether in government or private sector, is not comparable to Google at this time~www.wuxiaspot.com~ In any case, as the entrance to the Internet, the browser is a product we must not give up. "Page said.

Feng Yiping, who has remained silent, also spoke, "I think the impact of this incident may not be that serious,"

"Yes, I admit that Microsoft is really not easy to mess with, but their so-called accusations, in fact, will only make everyone laugh, right,"

Schmidt cannot object to this, as it is true.

"Besides, what's so strange about criticizing competitors publicly in the media? Is it because they say what the public believes?"

"Then uninstalling our browser as a virus?" Schmidt asked, "What can we do? Can we stand up and explain that our browser is not a virus?"

"In order to make our ipo go smoothly, in order not to let sec (US Securities and Exchange Commission) seize the handle, I strongly advise everyone not to make such a move during the quiet period," he glanced at Page.

He is not wrong with this worry. If it weren’t for the shareholders’ breakthrough of the 500 mark last year, or for federal law, a year after reaching this threshold, the company would either offer to sell its shares or disclose its detailed cost information. Page would not Agree to let the company go public.

Maybe he still has this resistance, so he just took this opportunity to go out and shout a few words, so that sec would not be approved.

Besides, Peppa has a bad temper, and he cherishes and cherishes the products he has developed. How can he tolerate those guys and treat the products he has developed so hard?

"When the virus is uninstalled, Schmidt, I don't think you need to worry too much," Feng Yiping said.

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