Chapter 2248 Direct

Google, Mayer, who was as brightly dressed as ever, was walking out in a hurry, but stopped when he saw a person.

"Susan," she called to a middle-aged lady who was wearing a black shirt, with short brown hair that just reached her shoulders, and hexagonal metal earrings. She looked very capable, and her brows were very heroic.

"congratulations,"

"Thank you," Susan, who was stopped by her, hurriedly held her hand and pointed to Page's office, "Sorry, I made an appointment with him,"

"Oh," Mayer nodded, "Is the little guy okay?"

Susan smiled, "It's good, I just finished feeding."

Susan, who was still breast-feeding, pulled up her shirt and said, "Look at it for me. Isn't it there?"

Because she is worried about getting milk stains, she wears dark-colored clothes recently.

Mayer looked at her chest and said, "No,"

"Thank you. Let me tell you, this period of time has been really embarrassing. After this period of work is over, let's find time to get together, find a place, and have a couple of drinks, okay?"

Mayer nodded, "Okay,"

"Then me," Susan pointed towards Paige's office, smiled and left quickly.

"See you soon," Mayer waved to her.

However, as he walked out, he couldn't help but look back.

Whether from a man's point of view or a woman's point of view, standing with Susan, Mayer seemed to crush her in all aspects.

But in the eyes of Googlers, it’s really not necessarily true.

For Googlers, if Mayer is the face of Google, then Susan Wojcicki, who is not well-known to the outside world, is Google's god of wealth.

She is in charge of Google's advertising business - she is the immediate boss of Sandberg, who was hired by Feng Yiping from Facebook. She organized and developed Google's most important AdSense. Currently, more than 90% of Google's revenue comes from her team.

Therefore, in many minds, Susan is more important to Google than Mayer.

Susan also shoulders another important responsibility, that is, mergers and acquisitions.

Just last month, she finalized the deal to acquire DoubleClick, a well-known online advertising service provider, with a generous offer of US$3.1 billion.

Around this company, two other well-known companies in the United States, Microsoft and Yahoo, are also interested.

Because the inclusion of DoubleClick will help increase their market share in the online advertising field.

But when Microsoft's highest offer was US$2 billion, Susan decisively offered US$3.1 billion, which was 50% more than Microsoft's offer, successfully frightening the two opponents, especially Yahoo.

Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, who seems to be in an uneasy position now, finally launched his highly anticipated new advertising system, Pana-ma, in early February after many delays. ).

The launch of this important advertising system has effectively increased the advertising click-through rate of Yahoo's website.

As a result, many investors on Wall Street are regaining confidence in Yahoo. The intuitive consequence is that since January this year, Yahoo's stock price has risen by a quarter, and accordingly, although Google is still rising , but only rose 10%.

In the past few years, this has not been the case.

In the past few years, the stock prices of Yahoo and Google have shown contradictory trends, that is, Google's stock prices have continued to rise, while Yahoo's stock prices have continued to decline.

Some institutions in the market have responded accordingly to such a situation. For example, analysts at UBS downgraded Google's stock from "buy" to "neutral" and recommended that investors wait and see for a while. .

This is what Google, which has been accustomed to being its favorite for many years and has an unexplained love-hate relationship with Yahoo, wants to see the most.

That's why Susan made this heroic move.

Google's advantage in online advertising is search advertising, while Yahoo's advantage in online advertising is brand advertising.

In recent years, the growth rate of search advertising has far exceeded that of brand advertising, and many people have analyzed that in the future, the growth rate of brand advertising will exceed that of search advertising.

The advantage of DoubleClick is brand advertising.

So this is an acquisition where Google spends a lot of money to make up for its shortcomings.

And leaving such an acquisition to Susan is a testament to Google's recognition of Susan.

This made Mayer a little bitter. She was not responsible for the acquisition.

By the way, Susan joined Google earlier than Mayer. She was the 16th employee at Google, and Mayer was the 21st.

Susan's relationship with Page and Brin is also very unusual.

At the beginning, when the two young guys came to ask Yahoo to acquire it but failed, so they decided to do it themselves, they chose to start their journey in the garage of Susan's house.

In other words, Susan was Google's first landlord, collecting rent of $1,700 per month.

After nearly a year as a landlord, she quit her job in Intel's marketing department to join Google.

Therefore, some people call her the "Mother of Google."

When she joined Google, she was pregnant with her first child, so she became the first Google employee to have a baby, so she designed Google's day care center.

After giving birth to my second child and returning from maternity leave, I organized and developed AdSense, which is crucial to Google.

Last month, when the DoubleClick deal was finalized, she gave birth to her fourth child.

When getting in the car, Mayer thought about Susan's now unconcealable belly, looked at her own flat belly, and for some reason, she was envious.

When she was awakened by the horn next to her, she thought, I must be crazy, why would I envy that ugly belly?

She turned the rearview mirror and looked at the face in the mirror. Very good, it was the most brilliant and moving time after fading from youth. She was impeccably beautiful at a glance.

However, she looked at her belly again.

Susan already has 4 children, maybe it's time for her to consider this issue?

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In Page's office, Brin was also there. When he saw Susan come in, he quickly stood up and gave up the sofa he was sitting on.

"Susan," Page tapped on the keyboard a few times, "How are the children preparing?"

"No problem," Susan smiled and glanced at Brin.

Next weekend, her sister, Anne Wojcicki, will marry Brin - yes, Brin's girlfriend Anne is Susan's sister.

Her children will also play an important role in the wedding that is not open to the public.

"Did the SEC approve our acquisition of DoubleClick?" Page finally put down the keyboard and sat down.

Although the two companies have reached an agreement, because the acquired DoubleClick is a listed company, it also needs the approval of the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

"No," Susan shook her head, "but according to the information we have, this should be soon,"

"What I want to talk to you about today is another issue,"

"Advertising issues?" Brin glanced at Page.

In addition to mergers and acquisitions, Susan is responsible for advertising business. Since it is not a merger and acquisition issue, it is naturally an advertising issue.

And Brin and Page probably guessed what Susan would say at this time.

"Yes," Susan leaned forward, crossed her fingers, and looked very serious. "After Sandberg joined, Facebook's online advertising has developed very rapidly. At present, it has generated more and more competition with us,"

"I know that Feng is very important to the development of the company. It can be said that he used to be a very competent strategic director,"

"But now, whether he is competent as a strategic director or the third largest individual shareholder, many colleagues have been discussing it,"

"Not only Facebook, we are also competing more and more with Feng's company, such as in the field of online video,"

This field is also Susan's responsibility (in the original time and space, she also presided over the acquisition of YouTube and later served as the person in charge of YouTube), but compared with YouTube, this area can be said to be very unsuccessful at present.

"Our development in the social field also conflicts with his company,"

"I am not accusing Feng of providing the company with the ideas of Facebook and YouTube, because we all know that Feng should have made arrangements for these two products before joining Google,"

"It's just that, with the conflicts in various aspects becoming more and more intense, especially in the field of online advertising, some colleagues in my team are now increasingly dissatisfied,"

"Frankly speaking, I sometimes don't know how to explain this issue to them,"

Page looked out the window and thought.

Susan said this, which means that she personally has some opinions on this aspect.

"Susan, I understand your concerns," he said.

"I came here today to ask a question," Susan looked at the two of them seriously, "I always feel that you and Feng seem to have reached a tacit understanding on many issues, so is it possible for us to acquire Feng's company in the future?"