Chapter 1379: Laying Out the Internet!

Yang Ming knew that the next era was the era of the Internet explosion and the era of the Internet's explosive development.

This time, Yang Ming came here to prepare for the subsequent Internet development and layout.

This involves a series of layouts such as browsers, search engines, e-commerce, Internet payments, etc.

It can be said that this is also the best era to make money.

Historically, the United States has produced a lot of billionaires relying on the development of the Internet. Even though there was an Internet bubble around 2000, it quickly passed safely.

Until Yang Ming came to this world from his previous life, the global Internet continued to develop, but it may have developed from personal computers to mobile phone apps.

In fact, in his opinion, they are all the same.

Of course.

Yang Ming is not in a hurry.

He will stay here during this period.

Now after meeting with Langdon, Navia, and Chambers.

He will meet many people in Silicon Valley.

Among them, the founder and CEO of Pingguo, Jobs.

Of course, the Empire Group is now the largest shareholder of Pingguo Company.

In addition to Pingguo Company, there is also Oracle. The founders of Oracle are Ellison and others, but Yang Ming and Empire Group are the largest shareholders of Oracle.

The two people did not know that Yang Ming suddenly came to Silicon Valley this time, so they did not know that Yang Ming was here.

At noon that day.

Yang Ming had lunch with Landon, Navia, Chambers and others at the Silicon Valley Villa.

After the three returned to the company.

In the afternoon, Musk came.

It was different from history.

Musk went from South Philippines to Canada, and then from Canada to the United States.

Now he went to Hong Kong to study high school, and even got the top score in the college entrance examination with nine excellent scores. He finished his junior year at Oriental University and then went to Stanford University.

Although Musk also entered Stanford University to study for a doctorate in materials science and applied physics in history, Musk decided to leave school and start a business on the second day after enrollment.

Now Musk has decided to study for a master's degree and a doctorate at Stanford University.

Moreover, these are all arranged by Yang Ming.

When Musk saw Sir Yang, he was also a little surprised.

At this time, Yang Ming had changed a lot in all aspects of Musk. For him, Yang Ming was a person that the other party could not surpass.

Although he was very ambitious before and hoped to surpass Sir Yang one day.

But now it seems that it is no longer possible.

"Musco, how are you at Stanford?"

"Sir Yang, I am doing very well at Stanford."

He is a very smart person, and he has a solid foundation after studying in high school and college in Hong Kong. When he came to Stanford, Yang Ming had already selected his major in advance.

Including the Internet, clean energy, space, and even materials science, etc.

At this time, Silicon Valley and San Francisco are one of the global Internet centers, and Stanford is the university with the greatest influence on Silicon Valley. Musk can get in touch with many things he has not been exposed to before at Stanford.

But it is precisely because of that that Musk is afraid.

Because now he finds that the industry invested by Sir Yang seems to have known it many years ago.

Yang Ming and Musk talked about the development of the Internet. Musk had guessed that Sir Yang might come to further lay out the Internet this time.

"The next thirty or forty years will be an era of great development of the Internet, and all aspects will be related to these. So, during this period of time, you should study the basics and theories well at Stanford."

"Sir Yang, will I start a business after graduation?"

"Don't worry about that. I will give you funds and guide you on what to invest in."

Musk's entrepreneurship in history was relatively smooth, but there were also many failed experiences.

This is very beneficial to the other party.

However, Yang Ming does not need the other party to do that now. In fact, it is more about controlling more industries in the United States through Musk.

And Musk is smart enough to do these things for him.

In fact, Yang Ming is now learning from the Rothschild family. Now it seems that the Rothschild family's wealth and influence in the world are not as good as before.

In fact, it is not like that at all. The other party just deliberately dispersed the assets, and on the surface, they are under the names of other people. In fact, those people are managing the company for him.

In fact, it can be seen from many of the Rothschild family's transactions later.

In history, the Rothschild family was also one of the earliest shareholders of Pingguo Company, but it is difficult to find out if you have not seen Pingguo Company's venture financing.

Yang Ming talked a lot with Musko.

"Musko, do you like life in Hong Kong or here?"

Musko has lived in Hong Kong for many years, including high school and even the first three years of college, which adds up to seven or eight years of life.

Hong Kong may be small, but it has a large population and is very prosperous.

And when I arrived in Country M, it was actually very different here and there.

"Sir Yang, to be honest, I may prefer life here."

This is inevitable.

Why? The other party is originally white and it is easier to integrate here.

However, in Hong Kong, although there are many white people, including many executives of the Empire Group, Musko finds it difficult to integrate.

"I understand."

That night.

Masco finished dinner with Yang Ming and others here.

Yang Ming asked someone to send Masco back quietly.

Yang Ming didn't want too many people to know about his relationship with Masco.

After Masco left.

In the evening, Steve Jobs, one of the most influential CEOs in the world and the founder of Pingguo Company, came.

In the afternoon, Jobs learned that Sir Yang had arrived in Silicon Valley.

For Steve Jobs, he now also knows that the most influential person in the technology circle, even in the financial circle, may be Sir Yang.

It's just that Sir Yang rarely comes here.

"Sir Yang." Steve Jobs greeted Yang Ming respectfully.

"Joseph, long time no see."

The two shook hands with each other.

Zai Azhu brought a glass of water and closed the door.

Looking at the bald Steve Jobs in front of him, Yang Ming thought of the Steve Jobs in his previous life.

In 1983, the Lisa Database and Apple Iie were released, priced at $9,998 and $1,395 respectively. But Lisa’s expensive price doesn’t have much market, and Lisa embezzles a lot of Apple’s R&D funds.

Because Jobs' business philosophy was different from that of most managers at the time, and because IBM launched personal computers to seize the blockbuster market, the general manager and directors blamed the failure on Chairman Jobs, and passed the resolution in April 1985. The board of directors decided to revoke his management authority. Jobs tried several times to regain power but failed, so he left Pingguo Company on September 17, 1985.

After Jobs resigned from Pingguo during the independence period, in 1986, Jobs spent $10 million to acquire Lucasfilm's computer animation effects studio in Emeryville, California, from George Lucas, and established an independent company, Pixar Animation. room.

The company later became a well-known 3D computer animation company and launched the world's first fully 3D animated film "Toy Story" in 1995. The company was acquired by Disney in 2006, and Jobs became Disney's largest individual shareholder.

Jobs returned to Pingguo. In 1996, Pingguo Company was in trouble, and its market share dropped from its peak of 16% to 4%. Correspondingly, Jobs's company became famous due to "Toy Story", and his personal net worth reached 1 billion US dollars.

But Jobs still came back during Pingguo's crisis. After his return, Jobs made drastic reforms, stopped unreasonable R&D and production, ended years of patent disputes between Microsoft and Pingguo, and began to develop new products iMac and OS X operating system.

The funniest thing in history is that after Jobs's shares were continuously diluted by financing, he had great conflicts with other senior executives in management, which led to the most important founder being driven away.

Although he came back later and led Pingguo Company to continue to create greater glory, and because Pingguo Company completely established Jobs' position in the global technology circle.

In this world, because Yang Ming and the Imperial Group are the largest shareholders of Pingguo Company, and Yang Ming has always supported Jobs, Jobs' position in Pingguo Company is very stable.

Of course, Yang Ming and the Imperial Group never interfered with the development of Pingguo Company.

At this time, Pingguo Company is still developing very well in global personal computers. Compared with giants like IBM, Pingguo Company's position is now becoming more and more stable.

The stock prices in the stock market are also getting higher and higher.

However, sometimes, Jobs was a little anxious. He didn't know which direction to take Pingguo Company to develop.

In fact, Jobs was still very focused. He had been focusing on the development of personal computers. Although he could now see the development of the Internet, he did not let Pingguo Company develop in this area.

This time, when Sir Yang arrived, he happened to want to ask Sir Yang this question.

"Sir Yang, which direction do you think Pingguo Company should develop now?"

Which direction?

This is really a very important issue.

Historically, the founders of many companies did not know how to develop their companies after they had developed them to a certain level, which led to the decline and bankruptcy of the companies.

Yang Ming said directly: "Now we are still developing computers, and in the future it will be mobile phones."

It is indeed computers now and mobile phones in the future.

Although Yang Ming now owns multiple mobile phone brand companies, the value of mobile phone brands is not as great as it will be in the future. If Pingguo Company starts to diversify its funds into research and development of mobile phones, it may cause problems in the development of Pingguo Computer.

"Then I heard that the Internet is developing rapidly now. Does Pingguo Company want to develop in this area?"

For computers.

One is hardware.

One is software.

Hardware includes a lot. The computers produced by Pingguo Company all have hardware from major companies. Not to mention software, other computers now mainly use Windows systems from supercomputer software companies. However, Pingguo Company It uses its own MACOS system, which means that Jobs is unwilling to give up the soul of his computer. It still uses its own software operating system.

Even though he knows that the super-soft Windows belongs to the Imperial Group.

However, now the MacOS system is really not as good as the Windows system.

In addition, there are now very different commercial systems in Europe and the United States. They may be somewhat similar, but there are also differences. However, if it is truly successful, except for Windows systems, it is difficult for others to compare with this.

Yang Ming knows that a very important system will appear in the future, the Android system.

It can be said that in the future, Android, Windows, and iOS systems will monopolize the world, especially Android and iOS systems that almost monopolize the world's mobile phone systems.

In the computer era, Windows systems are mainly used, as well as Pingguo Company's MacOS system.

"You can develop in this area, but you can't spend too much energy." Yang Ming reminded.

Then Jobs said: "Sir Yang, Wangyin Computer filed for bankruptcy this year."

King presses the computer?

This was once one of the computer and typewriter giants in country M and even the world.

Wangjian Company has maintained its advantage in the field of word processing for a long time. The entire late 1970s and the first few years of the 1980s were the golden age of Wangjian Company.

Historically, in 1983, Wangjian's company's turnover reached US$1.5 billion, and Wangjian's personal assets once reached US$2 billion, firmly ranking as the richest Chinese in the world.

However, luck does not always favor Wangzhi Company. In the late 1980s, almost at the same time that Wang An was suffering from a terminal illness, Wang An's company also went from prosperity to decline due to a series of major mistakes.

As of June 30, 1992, Wangzhi Company's year-end profits dropped to US$1.9 billion, a US$1.66 billion decrease from total revenue in the past four years.

At the same time, the market value of Wangzhi Company also dropped from US$5.6 billion to less than US$100 million. At its peak, Wangjian Company employed 31,500 people, but it will be reduced to 8,000.

Just like the miraculous rise of Wangjian Company more than ten years ago, it declined at an alarming speed.

In fact, as early as 1989, Wangjian Company was already in trouble of lack of funds, but at that time Wangjian's son Wang Lie was still full of confidence in the company's prospects.

"We have an annual revenue of 3 billion US dollars and there is no way we will collapse." Wang Lie said confidently. Facts have proved that he was wrong. Wangjian Company's industrial losses were quite heavy. In the painful three months before they applied for Chapter 11 "Bankruptcy Protection" of the "Bankruptcy Law", Wangjian Company did not get any new investors. Trapped in debt.

Wangjian Company seems to be in doom, with a huge loss of nearly a quarter of all assets suddenly approaching.

At this time, Wangjian Company was in danger of violating the bank's debt agreement, which required the company to maintain at least a minimum net asset value.

Even if Wangjian Company can successfully restructure its debt, its scale will be reduced sharply, and it will not even be able to continue to engage in the computer industry. Such a tragic situation will put 5,000 employees of Wangjian Company out of work, and Wangjian Company's shareholders will also suffer heavy losses, including the Wangjian family itself, which once owned shares worth nearly US$1.6 billion.

Compared with history, Wang An also died on March 24, 1990. The torture of cancer and the difficulties of the company made Wang An depressed.

However, Wang Zian's death remained unchanged as in history, and his company only delayed filing for bankruptcy for one year.

At this time, Yang Ming had not paid much attention to Wang Press and his son or Wang Press's computer.

In the 1980s, Yang Ming met Wang An and his son, and even proposed to acquire Wang An's computer company, but Wang An refused.

Later, after Yang Ming's Windows system was launched, Yang Ming deliberately purchased 200,000 computers around the world in order to promote this operating system.

At that time, Yang Ming was cooperating with IBM and even Japanese computer companies.

At first, Wang Press and his son hoped that Imperial Group would buy computers from their computer company. However, Yang Ming knew that Wang Press computers were not good. In addition, although Wang Press computers were developing well at that time, Yang Ming's intention was to target IBM from the beginning, even at that time. Bill Gates has founded Microsoft.

Therefore, Yang Ming and Wang Yin and his son did not cooperate that time, and they basically did not meet each other after that.

Three years ago, Wang Jian, the most influential person in the technology circle of M country, died like that. However, even then, whether his company was handed over to his son or to another professional manager, it still could not be saved. This company.

Historically, in November 1986, Wang Yian appointed his 36-year-old son Wang Lie as president of the company, despite the opposition of many directors and executives. His reason was "traditional": "Because I am the founder of the company and have complete control over the company, I want to give my children the opportunity to prove their management capabilities."

As a result, a large number of executives who had followed Wang Jian for many years left. By 1988, the company's losses were as high as US$424 million. Wang Jian, who was critically ill, had no choice but to ask his son to resign and asked well-known business expert Edward Miller to turn the tide.

However, Edward Miller was of no use either.

This has a great impact on Yang Ming, so he established the Imperial Group Cabinet and Secretariat in order to avoid this situation when he is no longer in the Imperial Group on the issue of successors.

Of course, historically, Chambers also came out of Wangjian Computer Company, and later joined Scooter and built Scooter into a world giant.

The collapse of Wangzian Computer now has a great impact on the entire computer circle and even the M country's technology circle. Especially Steve Jobs and even IBM Computer Company have been reflecting on it.

After all, the 1980s was still a rising star, how come it has become like this now?

This is also why Jobs felt that the most feared thing for his Pingguo company was that it would lose its development direction.