Chapter 869 The Unhappy Giant

The biggest influence of Asia on San Francisco should be the California cold current originating from the Philippine Islands. Under the joint action of it and the low-temperature ocean near San Francisco, the hot summer in Silicon Valley, although the sun is as bright as the sun, is actually very cool and the temperature is not high, at least , in the sun, at most it is a little dry, not like in the capital, there is a feeling of scorching.

Feng Yiping was dressed casually and wore big sunglasses. He drove the Yajun, which he hadn't touched for a long time, and drove Huang Jingping and Amanda on the 101 highway.

Amanda was wearing small brown sunglasses and holding a clapping drum in her hand. She kept clapping energetically and yelled a few times from time to time. I don't know if it was because of happiness or to attract Dad's attention.

Huang Jingping's expression was peaceful and happy. She was very satisfied with such a day and such a scene.

In the parking lot near the cruise terminal, Feng Yiping carried his daughter out of the safety seat, "Do you like Daddy to hug you?"

"Well," the little guy nodded, and now she was finally able to communicate simply, and then took the initiative to kiss Feng Yiping on the face.

For more than 14 months, she is very attached to her parents. Of course, there may be reasons why she couldn't see her mother, let alone her father, in the previous period.

"Feng," Paige happily waved to them on the yacht. He had a messy beard two days ago, but he finally cleaned it up today. Now, his chin and cheeks look black and blue.

"Amanda," Brin shook Amanda's little hand a few times, and took the baby carriage from Huang Jingping. In these respects, he was better than Page.

However, what he did today seems to have a purpose. He said to a tall lady standing beside the yacht, "Annie, this is Feng and Huang,"

"Hello," said this lady, she looked different from the ones brought by Brin before. First of all, she was not beautiful, and secondly, her figure was quite average, except that she was quite tall. Finally, this person looked a little old, which is why Feng Yiping called her a lady instead of a girl in his heart.

"Anne Wojcicki, nice to meet you,"

"Hi, nice to meet you, Wojcicki? Who are you and Susan?" Feng Yiping said Susan was Susan Wojcicki, one of the veterans of Google, and seemed to be the tenth employee , currently working in the advertising department, because she is the first Google employee to have a child, and the current design of the Google nursery is from her handwriting.

Of course, the most important point is that the garage that Larry and Brin rented when they first started their business was her family's.

"That's my sister,"

Oh, then the two of them should have known each other a long time ago. Judging by Brin's attitude today, he seems to be a little different to this one. Could it be true?

"Wow, so cute, sorry, can I?" She looked at Amanda in Feng Yiping's arms and asked.

"You have to be prepared, she is not easy now, she is also very naughty," Feng Yiping said with a smile.

"I have experience, my sister has had more than one child," this is not a lie, her actions are really professional.

Page held two glasses of wine, handed them to Feng Yiping and Brin, and signaled to the cab to start the boat, and the three of them walked to the front deck, "Other shareholders have proposed listing again, and this time their attitude is very firm, Feng, your opinion Woolen cloth?"

“I think for a company like ours, going public should be inevitable,” Feng Yiping said.

For a search company, in addition to advanced search engines, the accumulation of content is also very important. For such a company that has all kinds of information and can manipulate users to see those information first, going public is not just about business. The consideration is also the consensus of the government and the public. Of course, we hope that such a company can become more transparent and allow it to accept all aspects of supervision.

"It's important to time the listing right,"

"In this regard, you have always had a unique vision, so when do you think is the most suitable time?"

"I think it is more appropriate to wait until the products we are currently developing, at least the browser and mailbox, are successfully put into use, and then it is more appropriate to consider the launch. As for the time, as long as it is not this year, it will be fine,"

Although the Internet industry has picked up a bit this year, the stock prices of the domestic companies listed in the United States have even turned over several times compared with the same period last year. However, this is really only a rare phenomenon. Last year, several of them were too miserable. After a while, some stock prices fell to less than one dollar, and some were even suspended.

Based on past experience, browsers and mailboxes are the two products that can attract customers the most. Now that they are major shareholders of Google, Feng Yiping naturally hopes that Google's listing can create greater value for himself.

"You think next year will be good too?" Brin asked.

"As long as those two products can be developed and launched as soon as possible, next year will not be too bad. Investors actually know the prospects of the Internet economy. After the previous two years of downturn, a high-quality company like ours will definitely be welcomed and sought after by the market. My sincere thanks to you all." You two are confident, so you are also very confident about our company's listing, and I believe that we will be able to set a record in terms of the amount of financing."

"The research and development is progressing smoothly, and it will be launched by the end of the year at the latest." Page has been so busy recently, and it is also because of this reason. "It's just that our recent development in Europe has not been very smooth."

What he said was not going well, mainly in terms of public relations.

Google does not only encounter such problems in our country. In fact, it is the same in other countries in the world. The Internet search business is really not just a business, and Google currently dominates the search market in Europe. status.

Although it has not yet been listed, it has become a small giant.

The European Union, however, has always been unfriendly to these large multinational companies in the United States, from Microsoft to Apple, and they will cut their flesh from them in various ways, and will also create difficulties for them under various names.

In the early days of Google's development, these additional resistances were not great, but after Google gradually developed to the point where it was difficult to shake in the search field, similar troubles naturally increased.

This situation is similar to the trade between our country and the EU. When the trade volume was not large before, business in Europe was easy to do. However, now that the trade volume between the two sides has repeatedly hit new highs, the EU will soon become the region that has launched the most anti-dumping investigations against our country.

"Can we consider hiring some government officials in the EU?" Feng Yiping asked.

Western companies, when coordinating relations with the government, often hire some former government employees with high salaries as consultants or lobbyists. He does not believe that Page and the others did not expect this.

"Well," Page hesitated, "We have always wanted to make Google a noble and ambitious company. Although these behaviors are common, I think such means,"

"If competitors take advantage of this and we don't take strong measures, how can we change the world? Are we going to watch bad money drive out good money?"

"Okay," Page nodded. He must have known Brin a long time ago, but he just wanted to get more support and make his decision at least look more just.

How should I put it, although they are very persistent on some issues and may be better than our domestic counterparts, but they have gone through so many things from their establishment to the present, and they have successfully maintained this pair under the coveted eyes of Sequoia and KPCB. How can the control of the company be pedantic?

"With the development and growth of our company, there will be more and more similar things in the future. In the long run, I think not only should we hire government officials from the European Union, it is best that some of our employees can also be recruited by European Union officials in the future." government hire.

This strategic engagement will give us valuable access to the heart of old European decision-making and increase our influence in the public sphere,"

The two guys looked at each other and raised their glasses, "Cheers,"

"Feng, you really are exactly what we think,"

For Page and Brin, Feng Yiping's answer made them very satisfied and happy.

They thought hard and burned a lot of brain cells before they came up with the solution. As soon as they heard about the problems they were facing, Feng Yiping quickly thought of going with them.

Especially the last one, Feng Yiping could also think of it, it was beyond their expectations, and it made them feel again that it was a very good decision to choose Feng Yiping to invest in the company.

They looked at Feng Yiping with a little more sympathy.

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The three here are full of love, full of pride and ambition, and on the shore of Lake Union in Seattle, Washington, Bezos once again blackened his face, "NEXTDOOR, NEXTDOOR again!"

Although Amazon's group buying business is still advancing, they still haven't surpassed the founder NEXTDOOR in this field.

Moreover, the problem of the original refund still exists. The American people, like their government, often don't listen to the truth, even if they know the truth, it really makes sense.

Therefore, Amazon's group buying business has been somewhat stuttering at present.

That area hasn't been straightened out yet, and they can't improve their own efficiency while giving NEXTDOOR, a small company that doesn't give a lot of face, a little bit of color, but now they have actually affected another area under their own.

That was the IMDB he acquired in 1998, and it was also the first company he acquired.

After being acquired by Amazon, this company originally belonging to the UK can not only use IMDB's complete information resources to promote the sales of Amazon's DVDs and video tapes, but also get a lot of advertising revenue.

Because the database of this website is the most complete database of movies and filmmakers in the world.

But now, NEXTDOOR's review section is already shaking IMDB's leading edge in some fields, mainly in the ratings of newly released movies. More and more professional institutions and practitioners are also interested in the results of NEXTDOOR.

In the IMDB forum, more and more discussants mentioned NEXTDOR.

Although NEXTDOOR does not currently have a large-scale advertising business, Bezos knows that it will happen sooner or later, and by then, it will directly affect his income.

"Why? Our IMDB has been established for so long and has the most comprehensive database in the world. Why can they pose a threat to us in this field now?"

The person in charge of IMDB was a little nervous, "Their scoring algorithm should be comparable to ours,"

He said that because he didn't want to destroy his prestige. The algorithm of NEXTDOOR's scoring should be more scientific than theirs.

"They also have a list of people who voted and graded, followed by age ranges,"

It can only be said that the later companies are indeed more likely to do better than their predecessors in some aspects. The same film is scored by people of different age groups, and the results may be quite different.

At this time, IMDB does not have data in this regard, and NEXTDOOR is keenly aware of this, so their data is more meaningful for relevant people.

"Moreover, their review section has more participants. You know, their core advantage is those active registered users. The most active of these users are those housewives. These people have more time and energy to discuss those issues, there is a higher probability of creating some hot topics, thereby attracting more people to participate in the discussion,"

"Since we all know what the problem is, why are you still sitting here?" Bezos turned his seat, turned his back to them and looked out the window, "I want to see your coping methods and actions as soon as possible,"

The sun is shining outside the window, the lake is like a mirror, and the rainy and foggy weather in Seattle makes the trees next to it look greener. However, these scenes that made Bezos feel refreshed and pleasing in the past did not make him happy today.

He really didn't expect that his unsuccessful acquisition proposal would bring him so much trouble. Does NEXTDOOR intentionally target him because of this?

He shook his head, there should be no such possibility.

He clearly knew that the review section over there was a functional area that had been launched before he proposed the acquisition.

But this also makes the proud him quite upset. Why can a forum that they don't invest much in, be able to pose a threat to the professional website that they have acquired with a lot of money and vigorously developed? It seems that there are still many extraordinary things in that company that I didn't notice before.

Although he was unhappy, he really had the idea of ​​meeting the founder of NEXTDOOR at this time.

Coincidentally, Feng Yiping is also planning his trip to Seattle at this time. Of course, he went to Seattle, not for Amazon and Bezos.

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