Chapter 1126: Alas, an Era Is Over.

"One billion dollars, is Chen Yu crazy?"

Bill clenched his fists, he felt that some of them were insulted by Chen Yu.

Just now he said that 100 million US dollars was a big number, but he did not expect that others would start directly with 1 billion US dollars.

certainly.

$1 billion is an astronomical amount for many people, but not that big for Bill either.

It's just that it's not big, but $1 billion is still a scary number.

In particular, the direct investment in operations alone is $1 billion, and this figure is even larger.

And this operation is not an ordinary operation.

It's understandable if $1 billion is spent on operating expenses for a year.

However, according to the routine that he was familiar with before, Bill knew that the $1 billion would definitely be spent within a few days.

then.

This becomes a money-smashing game.

Is Bill missing the $1 billion?

Of course not.

But does Bill have Chen Yu rich?

Of course not.

Not only does it not, but it is far from it.

Bill can follow this $1 billion now, so next time, he can follow?

Say it again.

Microsoft isn't Bill's alone, nor is he alone.

Even if Bill wanted to, some of the other shareholders wouldn't.

in addition.

Microsoft's core business has always been the operating system, and a series of businesses around the operating system like word.

And msn, to put it badly, this is a completely edge business.

If it's for the operating system, maybe Bill can keep up.

But to spend 1 billion dollars for msn, Bill really didn't have this idea.

"Bill, do you think we want to follow?"

Steve asked weakly.

"You're the CEO, you decide."

Bill didn't know how to answer, so he threw the question back to Steve.

"I want to follow, but the main reason is that we can't throw money away like this. It's clear that Universal Technology has picked up a big bargain."

Although the msn business has developed very well, it has actually developed to the bottle shank.

The growth has grown, and the use of msn has also been used.

Even if they spend $1 billion, it will be difficult for them to attract much more registrations.

But WeChat is different.

WeChat is an emerging software, and it is also a global instant messenger.

He still has a lot of potential to tap.

Huanyu Technology invested 1 billion US dollars, and the effect obtained is definitely more than msn.

"Steve, you're right."

Bill nodded. "I thought so too."

The two were a little embarrassed, but also very helpless.

but.

More helpless than Microsoft, but also belong to AOL.

icq is clearly AOL's core business.

When the outside media rumored that Universal Technology would spend another $1 billion, AOL was silent.

The CEO of AOL is very courageous. He shouted loudly at the company meeting, and I will spend 1 billion US dollars.

But……

After yelling?

Microsoft can hit $1 billion, but AOL can't, sorry.

It's not that I don't want to throw it, it's that I don't have the money to throw it.

In the end.

AOL is just a portal site, and looking at his name, AOL is also a portal site that only belongs to the United States. In terms of status, he is equivalent to Sina in China, even worse than Sina, because there is a Yahoo in front of AOL.

This is just a portal site, how much money do you think he can make?

Let alone $1 billion, $100 million is not necessarily available.

All right.

It is possible to get it, but they really don't have the ability to spend 100 million dollars to play with it.

If that's all, it doesn't explain America Online's tragedy.

America Online is actually an Internet giant like Yahoo.

Even they predate Yahoo.

In the early days of the Internet, he was the nose of the Internet in the United States and even the world.

And merged with Warner in 2000, the market value reached a terrifying $350 billion, well, this is a blow, the highest market value reached $160 billion. But just two years after the integration, AOL lost $54 billion.

This is not only, in 2003, it reached a loss of more than 90 billion US dollars.

Yes.

You read that right.

This loss adds up to a loss of more than 140 billion US dollars, which is equivalent to a loss of several super companies.

Until now, the overall market value of AOL is only less than 10 billion US dollars.

In a few years.

According to the historical process, in 2009, AOL's market value will fall to 3 billion US dollars.

In 2016, AOL was eventually acquired by Verizon, like Yahoo, for $4.4 billion.

Can you imagine AOL's mood right now?

"Bastard, this bastard."

"This guy is taking money to kill us."

"It's cheating, it's cheating."

In the AOL ceo office, Ames roared again and again.

He scolded Huanyu Technology wildly and loudly.

Even, he is still scolding constantly on Weibo.

Yes.

This Weibo is the Weibo of Huanyu Technology.

But Ames has given up.

He is now vomited blood by Huanyu Technology.

$1 billion, what do you want us to do?

Is the world a rich man?

Does the world get everything you want with money?

Even at the back, Ames said on his Weibo that he was going to sue Huanyu Technology for monopoly.

"I mean, Ames is crazy."

"Well, I see, it's really crazy."

"You can't be crazy. I was smashed by Huanyu Technology like this. If it were me, I would be crazy too."

A group of netizens watching the lively was stunned.

They didn't expect that the CEO of Tangtang Group was driven crazy by Huanyu Technology.

only.

Who is to blame?

In the past, America Online also threw money at it if it wanted to, and also acquired Warner for more than 100 billion US dollars.

But the result is a crazy loser.

A loss of tens of billions of dollars in one year, and a loss of more than 100 billion dollars in two years.

Such a loss method, even if you are the world's largest company by market value, you can't stand such consumption.

As for the monopoly of Huanyu Technology.

Unfortunately.

Huanyu Technology has indeed engaged in a lot of businesses, but there are really few businesses that have monopoly.

Not to mention the instant messaging business.

To be fair, now the number of icq registrations exceeds that of WeChat, can this be considered a monopoly?

"AOL used to be the seventh largest company in the world, and its market value was the sum of the GDP of Mexico and Brazil. But I didn't expect it to be as big as it is today."

"Yeah, I still have some memories of AOL, his mailbox, his chat room, his instant messenger..."

"Alas, an era is coming to an end."

For some reason, seeing what AOL looks like today, many netizens sighed again and again.

It's just that in the Internet market, you can only see new people laughing, but old people cry.

The emotion is only temporary.

Soon, they will forget about AOL, icq, who was once the representative of the "new economy" in the United States.

As for why it was forgotten so quickly.

That is.

At this moment, everyone is thinking about him, how should he divide the 1 billion dollar money-throwing activity of WeChat?