Chapter 1431 Go Your Own Way

Lake Tahoe.

The sky is high and the clouds are light, the water is wide and wavy, the flowers look like spring snow, and the green trees are like waves.

Feng Yiping was wearing blue and white shorts and a T-shirt, holding a copy of the best-selling gossip magazine in the United States, The National Enquirer, and lying on a recliner in the backyard of a lakeside villa, half asleep and half asleep, his mind wandering.

Amanda was lying next to him. She must have played too crazy and was too tired when she first came here. Now she was sleeping soundly with her head on Tangguo, and her sleeping posture was as ferocious as ever.

Whenever he saw her sleeping, Feng Yiping always remembered what his mother said before, that when she went to bed at night, she clearly put him on the head of the bed, but when he got up at dawn, he often slept like a pig at the end of the bed.

He always denied it before, but now thinking about it, it was probably true.

Candy, who is no longer small, is not as cute as when he was a child, but now he is like a child who loves adults. He bends his body and lets his little master rest his head on him. He occasionally flutters his ears and opens his eyes. Feng Yiping seems to see the deep helplessness in his eyes - what can he do?

"It's so quiet," Huang Jingping, who is wearing a white sleeveless dress, puts sunscreen on her arms, "What do you think Peppa and the others are doing?"

Those two guys were as active as if they had ADHD in the morning, as if they never stopped for a moment, but this afternoon, until now, they have been silent.

"Before, Lucy and Annie kept staring at Amanda, and they were so curious about her. So what do you think they are doing now?" Feng Yiping said slowly.

"Tsk," Huang Jingping spat at him, "In broad daylight,"

"Life lies in movement, and movement can also create life, so there is no difference between day and night," Feng Yiping laughed.

He reached out and took a sip of the juice beside him. Immediately, a girl in uniform came over quietly, refilled his cup, and took away his almost empty cup.

"Do you think we can hire two people at home?" Feng Yiping asked.

"I know you want to," Huang Jingping spat at him again.

She also knew that men have a special liking for some uniforms, such as the maid outfit on the blonde girl just now.

The guy who designed the maid outfit must be an old rogue. Huang Jingping is very sure that if the maids around Baoyu in Dream of Red Mansions were all wearing such maid outfits, there would probably be no Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai.

"Why are you so complicated?" Feng Yiping looked at her with contempt. "I mean, if there are two professionals like this one at home, who will automatically appear when she is needed, and you won't feel her presence at all when she is not needed, how much trouble can be saved?"

"Who knows if it will cause more trouble," Huang Jingping muttered softly.

"What?"

"Ah, nothing," Huang Jingping replied casually, "You came home late last night, tell me how Chief Yang is doing?"

"He is indeed extraordinary," Feng Yiping said, with his hands behind his head, looking at the white clouds that float by every day.

"Since he is so powerful, why do you say Yahoo is not as good as Google?"

"There are many reasons for this, but I think their main problem may be execution. The general direction is actually correct, but the execution is not strong, and then they are not focused,"

"For example, it is like a monkey picking corn, taking a few bites on this cob, thinking it is not tasty, so it throws it away, and then picks another one. After taking a few bites of the next one, it finds it boring, so it picks another one... As a result, it may have ruined a piece of land, but its stomach is still not full,"

He remembered that before his rebirth, Yahoo's main business seemed to be very sluggish, just like many A-share listed companies later sold a house when they were about to release financial reports. At that time, Yahoo sold some Alibaba or Yahoo Japan stocks every time it was about to release financial reports.

In fact, even if they did not do search, did not play other tricks, spent less money on random acquisitions, and only focused on portal websites, they would not be so miserable. You know, NetEase, for example, did not achieve a market value of more than 20 billion US dollars later?

Yahoo's foundation and influence in the world are much higher than NetEase's!

"Then he still has no vision," Huang Jingping said, "Move over a little," she got into Feng Yiping's recliner, "He has acquired so many companies, but none of them has developed well. Look at you, the companies you acquired, aren't all developing well?"

This can't really be said to be wrong.

Yahoo has acquired too many companies, but few have developed well. For example, it spent more than one billion US dollars to acquire Overture last year. Google's advertising revenue is indeed mainly based on cloning this technology. However, after acquiring the original Yahoo, its share in the online advertising market has continued to decline.

Such things are really not right.

As for Yahoo's encounter with Alibaba, it can actually be said that a blind cat can also encounter a dead mouse. Yahoo has acquired so many companies, and it is not surprising that one or two of them have good returns occasionally.

Of course, the mouse they encountered was indeed a bit big.

However, he also let go of two big mice. First, Google only offered $1 million in 1997, but he refused.

That's understandable, since Yahoo was mainly doing search at the time and looked down on other search technologies, which is understandable.

But the second time, it was really hard to understand.

The second time was in 2006, when he and Zuckerberg agreed to buy Facebook for $1 billion. Everything was ready, but at the last minute, he wanted to save some money, so he asked his subordinates to lower the price to $850 million.

This move successfully angered Zuckerberg. Feeling greatly insulted, he tore up the agreement he was about to sign on the spot, so Yahoo lost a very rare opportunity.

Of course, with Yahoo's usual virtue, it is not certain that Facebook will develop if it really gets its hands on it.

"He is a good person, but he may have many difficulties of his own, or he should focus more on technology,"

It is undeniable that Jerry Yang made a lot of fatal mistakes, but it is undeniable that there are indeed some objective reasons for him to become a tragic figure in the end.

Unlike the two Google CEOs, Jerry Yang only has a single-digit Yahoo equity, and the control of Yahoo is in the hands of those guys on Wall Street.

Those people on Wall Street don't care about enthusiasm or long-term, they just want direct returns.

This naturally led to Jerry Yang's inability to control Yahoo, and some good strategies could not be sustained, which can be seen from the fact that Yahoo has changed so many CEOs.

He did have his reasons for insisting on some things.

For example, the thing that directly led to his final expulsion was that he ruined Microsoft's acquisition of Yahoo. Microsoft offered $44.6 billion at the time, a 62% premium, and many shareholders were tempted, but he just didn't agree.

Is he really unreasonable? We know that when Alibaba went public, the Alibaba shares held by Yahoo alone were worth nearly $51 billion, and this was even after Alibaba spent $7.6 billion to repurchase a lot of shares.

"That's the CEO of Yahoo, isn't it attractive to you?" Huang Jingping looked at Feng Yiping, and little stars appeared in her eyes again.

"Why do we have to work hard for others? We are busy with our own things," Feng Yiping laughed, "Besides, just wait, in a year or two, we will create a bigger and better platform than Yahoo."

Feng Yiping thought very clearly. Through various signs, it can be judged that Yahoo has many problems, especially in execution.

Even if the Yahoo board of directors approved Jerry Yang's proposal and appointed him as CEO, he could not guarantee that Yahoo would follow his baton.

Besides, even if everything developed as he expected, why bother? Why work hard for other people's companies?

It's not like he didn't have good projects.

If he knew that Yahoo would be sold at a bargain price and even the trademark would not be kept, he might not have met Jerry Yang yesterday.

"It's more fulfilling to build a career by relying on the platform built by others than to build a career by yourself,"

"Anyway, you are really great!" Huang Jingping kissed him on the face.

There was some movement behind them. They looked back and saw Page and Lucy, Brin and Anne, walking out from a distance.

Feng Yiping smiled at them, "How is it?" he whispered.

The two ladies were in high spirits, while the two men beside them seemed to be still asleep.

It is true that there are only cows that die of exhaustion, but no fields that are damaged by plowing.

Huang Jingping rolled her eyes at her and greeted the two, "Lucy, Annie, have you rested well?"