The Science Fiction World of Xueba

In the following time, under the leadership of Morgridge and Chambers, Pang Xuelin visited Cisco headquarters and Cisco laboratories.

In the laboratory, Pang Xuelin also met Mario, Prem and Luca, the three top engineers who were later known as the heart, soul and brain of Cisco.

However, Pang Xuelin just greeted them and did not communicate too much. Although these three technical experts are very high-level, their main achievements are still in the field of network switches. A standard white American is basically unlikely to be fooled by him to go to China.

It is also naturally impossible for him to exchange related technologies with the other party.

After all, Cisco's stock will be sold sooner or later, so let Cisco develop normally like in history.

After his visit to Cisco, Benson Raphael, who had been with him all the time, smiled and said, "Mr. Pang, how do you feel about Cisco?"

Pang Xuelin said with a smile: "It's a very good company, but the atmosphere of commercialization is too strong. Even the technical department is all about how to realize the operation. I prefer the kind of company that researches technology in a down-to-earth manner."

Benson Rafael smiled and said: "Isn't the company just to make money? In the United States, all new technologies should be for profit! If there is really a company that thinks about research and development in a down-to-earth manner, I'm afraid It's already bankrupt."

Pang Xuelin smiled and shook his head, but did not speak.

In his view, the biggest role of the market is to allocate resources, and to truly achieve progress, what is needed is a company that can do technology with peace of mind.

At this time, Benson Raphael said: "Mr. Pang, if there is nothing else, I will take you back to the hotel first. If you need anything, you can call me at any time. By the way, how long are you planning to stay in the United States?" ah?"

Pang Xuelin said with a smile: "It's not sure yet. The embassy gave me a business visa for half a year. I may stay until the end of the World Cup in July."

"Oh, do you need tickets to the World Cup? I might be able to get you some."

Benson Raphael smiled.

He now knows Pang Xuelin's worth. Although he himself works for Don Valentine, Benson Raphael also has the heart to make friends with such a young billionaire.

Pang Xuelin was slightly taken aback, then laughed, and said, "If you can get it for me, that would be great."

Although Pang Xuelin is not a fan,

But in order to prepare to venture into various worlds, Pang Xuelin roughly checked the information of each era in history.

Naturally, such a major event as the World Cup will not be missed.

Therefore, he is well aware of the influence and legend of the 1994 World Cup in the United States.

The World Cup was held in the United States from June 17 to July 17, 1994, with a total of 24 teams participating.

The Brazilian national team finally won the championship, and the Golden Globe was won by Romario.

However, in this World Cup, the champion Brazil is not much to watch. On the contrary, the sad Italy and the melancholy prince Baggio have become the focus of fans' attention.

From the group stage all the way to the final, the ponytailed Roberto Baggio saved the fate of Blue Italy time and time again, winning the obsession of countless fans.

However, in the brutal penalty shootout in the final, Baggio, who was the last to play, kicked the penalty away, which also ruined the blue Italy's championship dream.

Since then, the back of Baggio's curtain has become an eternal classic on the green field.

But Pang Xuelin is not interested in the fate of Italy and Baggio, he is more interested in the performance of those dark horses.

The biggest dark horse is Bulgaria from Eastern Europe. In the first qualifiers, Bulgaria narrowly passed the test, relying on Kostadinov's last-minute goal, directly eliminated France and made France miss the World Cup finals. In the finals, Bulgaria was beaten 3-0 by Nigeria at the beginning. But then there was a dramatic change. Under the excellent performance of Stoichkov and Balakov, they defeated Greece and Argentina with a score of 4:0 and 2:0 respectively.

Especially in the quarter-finals, against the defending champion Germany, relying on Stoichkov's free kick and Lechkov's header, they reversed the defending champion Germany 2-1. In the end, they won a historic victory The best result in the history of the fourth place.

Saudi Arabia from Asia is equally beautiful.

In the group stage, Saudi Arabia defeated Belgium and Morocco, and finally advanced to the round of 16 with the second place in the group.

It's a pity that in the eighth finals, they faced the third place Sweden and lost 1:2.

And Sweden, in this World Cup, is also second only to these two dark horses.

Although he didn't encounter too many strong enemies along the way, he finally won the third place after stumbling.

For Pang Xuelin, these three teams will be a good opportunity for him to reap wealth in this World Cup.

At least Pang Xuelin is sure to pass 50 million US dollars, and after the end of the World Cup, the principal will be doubled tenfold.

As for casting more, it may attract the attention of the dealer. If there is a butterfly effect on the result of the game, it will not be fun.

Therefore, Pang Xuelin has been staying in San Francisco for this period of time.

San Francisco is one of the nine host cities for this World Cup. In addition to hosting the four group matches of Group A and Group B, Stanford Stadium also hosted the quarter-finals of Brazil against the United States and the quarter-finals of Romania against the United States. Swedish game.

At that time, you can experience the atmosphere of the World Cup live.

Talking about the World Cup tickets with Rafael, Pang Xuelin pondered for a moment and said, "Rafael, can you give me a car? I'm going to Stanford."

"To Stanford?"

Benson Raphael couldn't help being taken aback.

Pang Xuelin laughed and said, "I'm going to visit Stanford, but I'm in San Francisco anyway, so I can't turn a blind eye to the city's top university!"

Benson Raphael laughed, handed his car keys to Pang Xuelin and said, "Mr. Pang, you can use this Lincoln City first, and call me anytime you need anything."

Pang Xuelin nodded and said, "Rafael, I will trouble you then."

Saying goodbye to Raphael, Pang Xuelin drove directly to Stanford.

When he went to Stanford, he naturally didn't hang out at this top university in the United States. He was looking for someone in the past.

In 1994, the Internet in China had just taken root, while the Internet in the United States had officially entered the growth stage.

Several later famous Internet companies were established in this year, including Yahoo co-founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo.

And the time when Yahoo was founded should be on a certain day of this month.

In April 1994, Jerry Yang and Ferro, who were still studying at Stanford University, became obsessed with the Internet in order to complete their thesis, spending all day looking for information on the Internet. In the process, they collected and bookmarked many sites they were interested in, such as scientific research projects, tennis matches, etc., for easy search.

But as more and more sites are collected, they find it very inconvenient to search.

Therefore, they organized these bookmarks by category, and subdivided them into subdirectories when each directory was too large. This core method is still Yahoo's tradition even in later generations.

Compile it into software and put it on the Internet for other surfers to enjoy. Soon, their website attracted many users and received great attention and wide popularity.

People have fed back information and attached constructive comments to make the content more perfect.

In the winter of 1994, the two were so busy that even eating and sleeping became a luxury, and their studies were also thrown aside. The name of the software at that time was: "Jerrys Guide to the World Wide Web" (Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web).

As the "Guide" became more and more popular and concerned, many netizens went to the workstations of the Electrical Engineering Department of Stanford University to use this software, which made the school very troubled and complained that this invention affected the normal operation of the school's computers.

But Jerry Yang and Ferro are still working hard for this, and launched special columns: "Cool Links" and "Hard to Believe", and renamed the website: "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web".

Restricted by the conditions at the time, the data of the website was stored in Jerry Yang's computer, nicknamed "akebono"; while the search engine was stored in Filo's computer, nicknamed "konishiki". Athlete's name.

At that time, there were many competitors on the Internet, such as WebCrawler, WebCrawler, Worm, Infoseek, etc. These websites started from automatic search by software. Although they have a wide range, they are not accurate.

Yahoo, on the other hand, is purely a handmade product, with accurate search and more practicality.

In fact, by the end of 1994, Yahoo had become the leader in search engines.

With the sharp increase in traffic, Jerry Yang and Filo keenly discovered the huge business opportunities hidden in it, so they officially changed the website's name to Yahoo, while actively looking for potential investors to further develop Yahoo.

In the end, the company of Jerry Yang and Ferro was recognized by Sequoia Capital, and after the second round of financing, it received investment from Softbank.

Subsequently, Yahoo gradually expanded and established an ecosystem integrating search engine, e-mail, instant messaging, web advertising and website building platforms, covering all aspects of people's lives, and became the largest Internet portal in the world.

In 1999, when the Internet was just in its infancy, Yahoo had 120 million unique users, 100 million of whom had registered at least one of Yahoo's channels or featured services.

Taking e-mail as an example, Yahoo Mail used to have 243 million users worldwide, and the first email of many Chinese netizens was Yahoo Mail with the suffix @.

In 1996, just over a year after its founding, Yahoo landed on NASDAQ. The stock price rose by 154% on the day of listing, and the market value reached 800 million US dollars.

On January 3, 2000, Yahoo's market capitalization once reached $128 billion.

How awesome was Yahoo back then?

It is the first website in the world to provide Internet navigation services.

It created the Internet free model, that is, content is free and advertisements are charged.

From 2000 to 2006, it has been ranking first in the global Internet rankings.

Among the top 20 Internet companies in the world in 2006, it dominated 3 seats, with Yahoo, Yahoo Japan and Yahoo China ranking 1st, 7th and 14th respectively.

Google, Facebook in the United States, and Sina, Sohu and Netease in China are all its followers and imitators.

The Yahoo "empire" was almost invincible, and it can even be said that it was equivalent to the entire Internet.

It's a pity that Yahoo's bureaucracy has grown as it grows in scale, causing a lot of waste of organizational resources.

In later generations, the most successful companies in the Internet field are basically dominated by founders, but Yahoo is dominated by professional managers.

What's even more bizarre is that Yahoo has had seven CEOs in 22 years. The longest tenure was six years, and they were kicked out by the board of directors in just four months.

The development of the Internet is changing with each passing day, but in the frequent changes and changes of management, Yahoo has internal friction and swings left and right. The gap with other Internet giants is getting wider and wider, and eventually it is declining.

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In the real world, when Pang Xuelin was studying at ULCA, he followed Terence Tao to Stanford several times, and he is no stranger to this university.

Stanford in 1993 has hardly changed from 2018.

Lincoln city circled along the asphalt road on campus, and finally stopped at the Stanford Student Affairs Office building.

Pang Xuelin got out of the car, went straight into the office building, found the secretary's office, and knocked on the door.

"Come in!"

Pang Xuelin pushed the door and entered.

There was a female secretary in charge of student affairs in her twenties sitting inside. Seeing Pang Xuelin come in, the other party couldn't help asking curiously: "This classmate, what's the matter?"

"Ms. Rosa, I was called by Professor Friedrich Toman. Jerry Yang and Filo created a website on the school computer two days ago. They haven't come to class for several days. Professor Toman Let me ask what's going on, but I don't have a phone number for their dormitory, you should have one here, right?"

Rosa didn't doubt that he was there, and said with a smile: "Why do you students in the Department of Electrical Engineering always do such stupid things, wait a minute, I will check the phone number for you."

Soon, Pang Xuelin, who got the phone number of Jerry Yang's dormitory from Rosa, directly left the office building and returned to his car.

Afterwards, Pang Xuelin took out his mobile phone and dialed the number of Yang Zhiyuan's dormitory.

The phone beeped a few times and was quickly picked up.

"Which one?"

The other party spoke in English.

The accent is not particularly pure.

Pang Xuelin couldn't help laughing, and said in correct Mandarin: "Is it Yang Zhiyuan's classmate?"

"I am, who are you?"

"It doesn't matter who I am. I'm more interested in the Jerry Global Information Network guide created by you and Ferro. I don't know if you are interested in coming out. I will wait for you at the library gate."

The voice on the other end of the phone froze slightly, and asked in confusion: "How do you know that this website was created by us?"

Pang Xuelin laughed and said, "Of course I have my own way. I hope to meet with you and talk about my thoughts on this website..."

Yang Zhiyuan pondered for a moment, and said, "Okay, I'm in the dormitory now, but Fei Luo is still in class, and it will take half an hour to pass."

"Okay, then let's meet at the library gate in half an hour."

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