Chapter 2738 The Last Day

On the day that Paulson, on behalf of the U.S. government, forcefully took over the troubled Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, in Silicon Valley, another company louder than Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, Yahoo, also ushered in The last day.

Tomorrow, SoftBank's team will officially take over. From then on, Yahoo will become SoftBank's Yahoo.

It looks like there will be even more employees on the Yahoo campus this weekend than usual.

Those executives who are not easy to see on weekdays seemed to have made appointments. They came in many and did not stay in the office properly. They were like tourists, walking around in the park, letting them You bump into one accidentally, and bump into another one accidentally.

These senior executives are particularly amiable today. Even those guys who have always been aloof and unapproachable will definitely smile when they are greeted.

Sometimes, they even take the initiative to invite people to take photos. I don’t know if they want to commemorate or pay tribute.

Chief Yang is also among them.

Today, he looks a bit like the weird uncle in front of McDonald's. He is a photo opposable that many people don't want to miss.

Because everyone knows that, regardless of whether they will stay at Yahoo or not, the two chiefs will definitely leave the company they founded.

In other words, there will be no chance to take photos with them here in the future.

Chief Yang was also very cooperative today. It can be said that he accepted everyone who came. Originally, he should be in the office because there were many documents on the table that needed him to deal with, but today, he really couldn't sit still.

Looking at this park that he could walk around with his eyes closed, he really had mixed feelings, but he couldn't help but smile when facing the camera.

Despite this, there should be more than one person who saw the desolation in his eyes that might have been tainted by the seasons.

Yahoo was eventually sold at a high price of more than 50 billion US dollars, which was certainly a success. However, such success could only be regarded as a complete failure for both him and Ferro.

Chief Yang, who was taking a photo with several engineers, saw the one standing on the side and watched, and quickly motioned to him to wait. The people who were still waiting spontaneously dispersed upon seeing this, and they had also received the news. , like Chief Yang, the company's senior executive vice president will also leave. In fact, he has already completed the resignation procedures.

"Lu," Chief Yang and Dr. Lu walked side by side, "I'm sorry, I've always wanted to find time to talk to you, but you know, these days..."

"I understand," Dr. Lu said. "Thank you, Chief,"

"Chief?" Chief Yang smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Where else can there be a chief?"

Although SoftBank has specifically promised that he and Ferro will still retain the title of Yahoo Chiefs, but if the company is gone, what else are they called Chiefs?

"Of course you are the chief. Even in this last shift, you have been well received by everyone," Dr. Lu said.

"Let's not talk about this anymore," Chief Yang looked at him, "I'm sorry that the company suddenly changed like this, so that you had to re-plan your career,"

"There is absolutely no need for this. I am at Yahoo, and this year happens to be my tenth year. As you know, in our culture, ten years is a very successful number,"

"My development at Yahoo is also very satisfactory, so this is good," Dr. Lu said.

"Also, I have to thank you and the company for letting me go through the relevant procedures so quickly,"

As one of the core and most important executives of Yahoo, his resignation would not have been quick in the first place, but this time, it was exceptionally smooth. He knew that this must be because Chief Yang had taken care of him behind the scenes.

"Several of them have decided to leave," Chief Yang stopped, sighed, and said mockingly, "This can be regarded as the last benefit the company provides you,"

"You know, there's only so much we can do right now,"

Dr. Lu said, "That's good enough," and he extended his hand, but before he could say goodbye, Chief Yang asked again, "Have you really thought about it?"

Dr. Lu nodded, "Yes, I've thought about it."

"After the handover is completed, I want to go back to China to rest for a while, and then go see it on site,"

"I'm happy for you," Chief Yang looked a little envious at the look in Dr. Lu's eyes, "I think your choice is great,"

"With your ability, you won't have to worry about making a career at Microsoft, but we all know that, just like us, Microsoft has also fallen behind in some emerging fields,"

"And Feng's company is already in a leading position in the industry in terms of social networking and content industry. Coupled with his vision,"

Dr. Lu immediately remembered the words in Feng Yiping's letter.

"By joining his company, your development should be smoother. At least, you will not take detours in the direction of research,"

Dr. Lu couldn't agree more.

"Also, unlike Microsoft, Feng's company is very young, and Feng is also very young. In addition, it can be said to be his private company, and his personnel relations are relatively simple,"

This is also very important to Dr. Lu.

On Microsoft's side, Microsoft's two founders, Ballmer, and its numerous shareholders can be said to be full of factions.

Feng Yiping's company will naturally have various challenges, but compared to Microsoft, it will definitely be much simpler.

"From Feng's success in the US company, we can see that his company should be one of the few companies in China that is connected with Silicon Valley at this time, and you will adapt quickly,"

This is equally important, because in fact, Dr. Lu is a real American at this time, and is more adapted to the culture of American companies, or Silicon Valley companies.

"I completely agree with your analysis," he said.

He also knew that Chief Yang really agreed with Feng Yiping.

"I wish you greater success in the future," Chief Yang shook his hand.

"Thank you, I also look forward to hearing good news from you again,"

In Silicon Valley, the hands of the other two most successful Chinese Americans, except Feng Yiping, were tightly clasped together.

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At this time, Masayoshi Son had just settled down in his mansion in Silicon Valley.

This is a mansion located on a hill in Palo Alto, covering an area of ​​11 acres. It includes a neoclassical main house of more than 8,000 square meters, a house with a colonnade of more than 1,000 square meters, an independent warehouse, a leisure house, a swimming pool, a tennis court, and of course, a large garden.

Masayoshi Son paid more than 90 million US dollars for this. The other decorations have not been finalized yet. The total is at least over 100 million, which is worthy of this huge acquisition that he successfully led.

Spending such a large price to buy such a mansion here naturally means that he will put a lot of energy on the operation of Yahoo in the future.

However, Masayoshi Son, who was summoning his subordinates in the mansion where he had just stayed for one night, was very unhappy. He looked at the latest report submitted by the handover team and the list of executives who had been approved to leave. He stood up and said to the person in charge, Robert, angrily, "Are they all gone?"

In this list, let alone other people, there are 3 more executives at the vice president level.

In addition to Dr. Lu, the core executive in charge of the search and advertising department, the other two are from the R&D department.

The loss of each of these three people is a big loss for Yahoo.

"Yes, Yahoo's human resources department has approved their resignations," Robert said.

"How can they leave like this?" Masayoshi Son stood up.

But he soon realized that what he said was unreasonable. What can they do to stop them from leaving?

Deduct it?

As for Yahoo's efficiency in this matter, there is nothing wrong with it. At this time, such a thing is not incomprehensible.

Moreover, it seems that now is not the time to have a rift with Yahoo's management team, because if they act too tough, more people may quit.

Although there are a lot of talents, finding suitable replacements is not an easy task anyway.

And without the cooperation of those guys, they can't cope with it even if they have three heads and six arms.

Really, those who should leave don't leave, and those who shouldn't leave all leave, without any nostalgia. Do you think I am so unpopular? Masayoshi Son thought.

"Where are they going?" He sat back down.

"Most of them went to Microsoft and Google, but," Robert glanced at Masayoshi Son, "As far as we know, although Microsoft and Google have been inviting him to join, Lu's final choice was Feng's company,"

"What?" Masayoshi Son stood up again.

ps: Just like the chapter title, it's the last day of 2018, dear, do you still have tickets?