Chapter 1650 Cooperation

Google has changed a lot since it went public. This year's Christmas Eve party is no longer held at the company, but at the Hilton Hotel in Mountain View.

In fact, it's not just Google that has changed. Mountain View, where the company is located, has also undergone very big changes. Along the way, Feng Yiping clearly felt that there were several more construction sites under construction than before he returned to China.

In China, this would not be a big deal, but this is the United States. Within a month, a batch of new construction projects are launched, which is comparable to Shenzhen's speed of building one floor in two days.

There have also been great changes on the street. Although Google previously ordered its employees not to buy luxury cars, the number of luxury cars on the street has obviously increased, and even there are several more car sales companies.

Tonight is Christmas Eve, it’s almost 8pm, but the small mountain view town is still bustling with people, the restaurants are brightly lit, and business is still booming.

Such a scene made Feng Yiping feel a little confused. Is this still a small town in the United States? How come it looks so much like those economically powerful towns in China?

The Hilton Garden Inn Mountain View Hotel here is a four-story building complex with a brown and yellow appearance. At this time, both sides of the courtyard in front of the hotel's main entrance were crowded with media practitioners holding cameras and video cameras.

When Google employees in costumes walked by, flashing lights flashed intensively on both sides, giving them the feeling of walking on a red carpet.

Before going public in August, although Google was as well-known in the industry, it was obviously difficult to attract so much media attention just by throwing a party like it is now.

This is a very realistic place in the United States. Unless you can be like the famous Koch Industries, which not only has a long history, wide influence, high popularity, and well-known wealth, then no matter how well your family performs It is also difficult for unlisted companies to receive high attention from the media.

Now Google has not only been successfully listed, but its market value has surpassed Yahoo, becoming one of the largest companies in the industry. Not to mention the rising stock price since its listing, Google has quickly created a large number of millionaires and multi-millionaires.

Certainly qualified for the attention of these media outlets.

The young people with different skin colors in front of me are now all wealthy. The Indian smiling silly at the camera might already be worth tens of millions. Isn’t this the official embodiment of the American dream?

When reporters saw a mediocre Ford Explorer driving over, the reporters didn't take it seriously at first. Even at Google, such a car was really quite ordinary.

But who is that? Seeing the man getting off the car, some reporters couldn't help but rub their eyes. Is he here too?

With a "wow" sound, Feng Yiping, who had just gotten out of the car, was immediately surrounded by people from three floors inside and three outside. Questions came to him one after another, "Mr. Feng, will your company be listed?" "Mr. Feng" "How is your Tesla project that is going to subvert the traditional automobile industry going?" "Mr. Feng, will your company compete with Google?" "Mr. Feng..."

Feng Yiping was not in the mood to answer questions at this moment. He smiled and waved around, and slowly walked in under the protection of Owen and others.

The few employees over there who originally planned to change their appearance were really helpless at this time. It was just time for us, okay? Why do you want to come out to steal the limelight at this time?

Is it easy for us? After working as a coder for a whole year, we finally got a chance to shine at the end of the year, but in the end, you stole all the attention...

However, when Feng Yiping passed by them, they did not show any look of dissatisfaction. Regardless of whether Feng Yiping heard it or not, they all rushed to say hello to him.

Who can they offend?

Silicon Valley has made a judgment. It cannot be ruled out that Feng Yiping's projects will have at least one in the future that will be as promising as Google.

Furthermore, Feng Yiping's current net worth is higher than that of Page and Brin.

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"Feng," Feng Yiping had just said hello to several colleagues, and had just taken a glass of wine from the waiter's hand. Before he drank it, someone over there shouted, "This way,"

Feng Yiping took a look and saw a circle of people standing around the fireplace, including Page and Brin.

"Hi," Feng Yiping felt a little better when he saw the two of them. Although he would always talk about work whenever he was with them, talking about work could also make him temporarily forget the troubles at hand.

"The most popular actor is here tonight," Page said as she hugged him.

"You don't stand under the Christmas tree over there," Brin said.

Feng Yiping looked at the tall Christmas tree over there, looking at the mistletoe used to decorate the leaves, "No wonder Lucy and Annie didn't come tonight,"

Mistletoe, which is often used to decorate Christmas trees, is somewhat sacred in the eyes of many Westerners.

There are many legends about it, and now it is a very important element in an important Christmas custom.

During Christmas, if a woman stands under the mistletoe, it means that anyone can kiss her and it is difficult to refuse.

Later this evolved further, as did the men under the mistletoe.

Of course, customs are just customs and not very binding, and few people will take advantage of such opportunities.

But they still believe that when the Christmas bell rings and they hug and kiss each other under the Christmas tree, their affection for each other will always be maintained, whether it is love or friendship.

"Congratulations," as expected, but after just a few words of laughter, they turned the topic to work, "Congratulations on the success of your e-commerce project,"

"You know, we heard that because of the outstanding performance of your e-commerce project, eBay's Whitman significantly reduced the year-end bonuses of several executives," Brin said.

Naturally, they also knew about the previous dispute between eBay and Feng Yiping’s NEXTDOOR.

"I think Bezos is not in a good mood these days," Page said. "Feng, how did you do it? How did you achieve such good results as soon as you launched it?"

"Actually, I have been making relevant preparations in the past few years,"

Originally, he should be very happy to be praised so much by these two guys, but today, he really couldn't be happy.

"Looking for a place to sit?" Feng Yiping took another glass of wine from the waiter's tray.

"Okay," the two people didn't ask why. They could see that Feng Yiping was worried today.

"Hey," Feng Yiping and the other three had just left. After hearing the news, Mayer rushed over from other places. Seeing that Feng Yiping didn't hear her greeting, she was planning to shout again.

She happened to see Feng Yiping pour half a glass of wine into his mouth. Didn't he dislike drinking before?

Although he is smiling, his face doesn't look good. What's wrong with him?

Mayer thought about the phone call in the evening again. It seemed that he was not too cheerful at that time. Did something happen to him?

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This is a small hall on the second floor, which also has a fireplace. The high-backed sofa in front of the fireplace is very comfortable.

"Congratulations, your new campus is about to be put into use," Page said, "Lucy will go the day after tomorrow,"

"Anne will be there too," Brynn said.

"Thank you. Speaking of the park, how are you talking about purchasing the park we are currently renting?" Feng Yiping asked.

Until now, Google still has rented office space in Mountain View.

Now the surrounding environment in this area is very good. The original garbage dump has been turned into a beautiful park.

However, it is quite troublesome to buy this place.

The original owner of this park was SGI (Silicon Valley Graphics Company), a former giant in the American IT industry. Later, SGI, which was unable to make ends meet, moved out of the park in order to save money, and Google later rented it.

Currently, SGI has entered the stage of bankruptcy and reorganization. According to U.S. law, if Google wants to purchase this real estate, it needs permission from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court.

At the same time, the Mountain View City Hall has land rent rights to this park. If it wants to buy this place, Google will also need to pay monthly land rent to Mountain View City. The land rent of the Mountain View City Municipal Government will be in 2050 and 2051. Just expired.

After such a long period of time, we naturally have to discuss how much we should pay each month...

"We are confident that we can win it, but it will take time to go through these procedures," Page said.

Influenced by Feng Yiping, they have also figured out that land prices in Silicon Valley have been rising steadily in recent years. Anyway, if the company wants to use it, it is more cost-effective to buy it sooner rather than later.

Because it covers a large area, the difference between buying now and buying later will not be a small amount.

"Since we are so confident, I think we can buy some land around the current park first?" Feng Yiping said.

He is also a major shareholder of Google and is closely related to Google's interests.

He also just remembered that the LinkedIn he saw on the road was LinkedIn, wasn't it? The company later developed well and was later acquired by Microsoft at a high price.

It is conceivable that the two companies are so close and Mountain View is so small. In the future, especially after LinkedIn is acquired by Microsoft, it will definitely compete with Google in developing Mountain View.

It is conceivable that the most direct consequence of competition is definitely that the cost of development is getting higher and higher, so why not hoard some land now? Anyway, after going public, Google has a lot of money in its pockets.

"This is really an idea," Brin said. "Your ideas are always one step ahead, such as your social networking site and your video website. Now we feel that these two directions, especially the video direction, are also This should be the direction we want to develop,”

Feng Yiping was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect Page to bring the topic to this matter.

Do they still want to acquire YouTube like before?

However, even if Google offers $1.6 billion now, he will not sell it.

Because YouTube is now a very important part of his plan, the cornerstone of his content, and an important project related to the development of Netflix. It is already an inseparable whole.

However, Brin took the initiative to propose this idea. To be honest, Feng Yiping was very happy. This is good and this is really cooperative. You'd better think more about these aspects in the future.

"Actually, what you are talking about is mainly the content industry, right," Feng Yiping said. "I also suggest that we can work hard in this area,"

"Both of us really feel that this is a good development direction. Do you still remember what you said at the beginning? Search is everything, everything is search. I hope that in the future, we can search based on pictures or videos. Come search directly,"

It seems that Feng Yiping's grand remarks left a very deep impression on Page.

Page's vision is the main reason why Feng Yiping did not discuss YouTube's entry into China when he talked to relevant departments about Facebook in China.

From the current technical means, text-related content is still easier to regulate, but video content is really more difficult to regulate, and the same is true for photos.

If YouTube wants to enter China, then the difficulty of regulation will be even greater.

"We also want to set up our own video division. We believe that although there will definitely be a gap with YouTube, because we followed the trend early, the results should not be good either,"

"It's just that we don't want to imitate your creativity in such a field to compete with you. If we can cooperate with YouTube, it would be the best,"

Their statement and their behavior really made Feng Yiping feel relieved and moved.

"I have indeed been preparing for this company for a long time. To be precise, I have been thinking about such a project before I decided to acquire CoinStar. It should be obvious now that YouTube and my other projects have become a whole, and it is really difficult to list them separately."

"Let me think about it first, okay?"

How to solve such a problem in the end, he actually had an idea long ago, but some things can't be rushed, and he has to continue to work hard, or find a more suitable time.

Brin glanced at Page, "Okay, then can you tell us now why you are so depressed at night?"