Chapter 1417: Worried

Feng Yiping is holding a family dinner at home. Actually, it is not a family dinner, but a working dinner, because the guests are Page and the other three, and they are eating for work.

The dishes are also home-cooked dishes, cooked by Huang Jingping, who cooks Chinese food at home. Considering the nature of these guys who eat meat, many of them are hard dishes, such as grilled spareribs, twice-cooked pork, and white-cut chicken. The staple food is authentic spring rolls.

Such a gathering in summer is naturally indispensable for barbecue. Today's barbecue is in charge of Schmidt. He wears an apron and glasses. Don't say, he really has the style of an executive chef.

"Now I think this place is good," Page said, holding a bottle of beer in one hand and putting one hand in his pocket, walking around the yard.

Brin showed his funny side, performing a bad magic trick for Amanda. Oh, he also has an audience, Amanda's little follower, or it's hard to say it's a little follower now, Candy has grown up.

He still has time to reply, "It's private,"

"That's it," Page nodded in agreement.

As Google is about to go public, they are getting more and more attention, so they have to draw the curtains of their house in Palo Alto all day long.

If they invite guests or friends, the guest list will be exposed as soon as the party starts.

Unlike Feng Yiping, there are more than one family living on the mountain. Unless they block the door of his house, they don’t know whose house the cars that go up to the mountain enter. The key is privacy. It is on the top of the mountain and there are trees planted next to it. It’s really impossible to take pictures.

“That’s why Jobs and Ellison (Oracle’s boss) chose to build their house on the mountain,” Brin said, “Feng, when you first bought the house, didn’t you think that you would definitely be noticed by the whole world?”

“No, it’s purely a personal habit,” Feng Yiping explained. In fact, he bought this house based on this consideration.

“The more I look at it, the better it is. We can build a helicopter landing pad here in the future,” Page said.

As for this matter, Feng Yiping is really reluctant to try it. The reliability of helicopters is relatively low.

“It’s ready to eat,” Schmidt shouted over there.

He always felt that he was getting less and less able to fit into that small circle. Shouldn't people who do barbecues be watched and praised? Why didn't anyone pay attention to me?

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But the most popular thing today was the spring rolls that needed to be rolled by themselves. This was especially special. They used to eat fried spring rolls, but today they ate spring rolls that were rolled according to their own preferences. In their words, "they were two different things."

It was the best time for sunset, and the bay was shining with golden light, which was particularly dazzling. "I'll leave Asia to you," Brin said, raising his glass.

After Feng Yiping and Schmidt, mainly Feng Yiping's patient work, these two guys who were determined to play against Wall Street finally agreed to conduct roadshows outside the United States. Of course, if you expect them to go in person, you might as well expect the sun to be in the east now.

Back then, at the listing ceremony, none of Google's iron triangles were present, because Brin, as an old man, didn't want to take a night flight!

If they don't cooperate to this extent, do you still expect them to fly around the world to promote? Just rest early!

Hong Kong will be handed over to Feng Yiping, and the UK will be handed over to Schmidt. The two of them will still be responsible for the United States.

"I will try my best,"

"It seems that Feng's situation may be the best," Schmidt said with a little bit of envy, "David told me that many Asian investors have been actively contacting them these days,"

Feng Yiping is optimistic about Google's stock without concealing it, and encourages his employees to buy it, which still affects a lot of people.

"That's it," Page patted Feng Yiping, "Don't you see Feng's influence,"

"No, it's not that I have a strong influence. What investors mainly value is the performance of our company. But to be honest, I'm really a little worried about you two, I said," he walked between the two and put his hands on their backs, "Two big brothers, no matter what, cooperate during the roadshow,"

Page and Brin were a little embarrassed, "Don't worry, I will definitely,"

"Really?" Feng Yiping looked worried.

To be honest, the unsuccessful IPO of Google was really related to the incompatibility of these two guys.

Apart from the pricing method they insisted on, the colloquial prospectus, and the strong willingness to not pay dividends, the biggest problem is that because they have been singing against Wall Street, sometimes they miss the point.

In the only road show, these two guys offended investors, not to mention attracting investors - they only cared about their own jokes and did not answer questions from potential investors at all.

No one would think that they did not want to let Wall Street play its cards, and everyone present thought it was disrespectful to them.

"No matter how much we dislike it, Wall Street is always an indispensable party in our listing. For subscription considerations, we must at least distinguish Wall Street from investors. At least, even if investors ask questions about dividends and returns that you don't want to answer, you must be patient,"

Feng Yiping worked hard to do their ideological work.

"We can ignore money, but Page, think about our imagined products, we know the importance of money, right?"

These two middle-aged youths can only be said to have unformed personalities. Simply put, they like money, but they are somewhat ashamed to talk about money.

On the one hand, they are disgusted with Wall Street and tradition, and they seem not to care how much their net worth will increase if Google goes public.

As for how much money to raise, they originally proposed a goal that many people didn't know was accurate to the 8th digit after the decimal point, which was US$2.718281828 billion.

Are the men from science and engineering familiar? These are the first few digits of the irrational number e!

But on the other hand, they also like those high-cost gadgets. This can be understood from Google's later private jets that had to rent an airport to stop.

Page just said that Feng Yiping's house is good, and maybe he will start looking for it tomorrow, and it will be the kind that can build a helipad.

Also, because Feng Yiping already owns a Gulfstream, the two of them have been discussing buying a Boeing 767-200 wide-body passenger aircraft that has never been purchased by a private company in the United States and converting it into his own exclusive flying palace.

That is Boeing's main product launched for the 200-300-seat market. The length and wingspan are close to 50 meters, and the width is more than 5 meters. Feng Yiping's Gulfstream V, although it is the largest among the current Gulfstreams, But compared with it, it is nothing.

This plane, which can carry 300 people without any problems, plans to modify it to only seat 50 people at most.

Although the aircraft they plan to purchase is a second-hand aircraft, with the cost of modification, it will definitely not be cheap.

The key is its usual cost, not to mention maintenance, just the crew, which is at least five people, and the two engines with a combined thrust of close to 600 kN, which are authentic oil tigers.

How can they play this without money?

"No problem, we will cooperate fully." This is actually a common issue that Feng Yiping has been talking about these days. When he brought it up for him, the two of them were also a little embarrassed to make Feng Yiping so worried, which shows that they themselves How careless I was before.

"Everyone, do a good job," Brin said. "Let our IPO set a record and let us have more funds to develop new products. Come on, cheers!"

Such clear statements by the two of them finally made the nagging Feng Yiping return to his seat.

"But we have another problem to worry about,"

here we go again! Brynn was helpless while holding the wine glass.

"I'm still a little worried about the underwriters. You know, the auction pricing method makes it impossible for their customers to buy our stocks at a preferential price,"

This should be one of the original intentions of Page and others in insisting on such pricing. They just don't want to make the Wall Street people cheaper.

“However, I think that with the current model, there is no room for them to make small moves. For example, they can connect a group of investors and bid online at a lower price. This will even affect our pricing. ,"

His worries were not groundless. This was what Wall Street did without his participation.

So as a result of that time, Page and others originally wanted to mess with Wall Street, but they were indeed fooled by those guys on Wall Street.

Page was stunned for a moment, "Feng, you're right to remind me, hum, it's really possible,"

Schmidt was also a little nervous, "We must come up with the best solution to this problem now,"