Chapter 173 A Historic Moment for Yifan Company

At around ten o'clock in the morning the next day, Yang Zhiyuan called Li Xiaofan and tried his best to act like a host and invited Li Xiaofan and Tang Xinyi to have lunch together and chat together.

Li Xiaofan simply invited Yang Zhiyuan to Tang Zixin's Tangyuan Chinese Restaurant.

The business at Tangyuan Chinese Restaurant is very good at noon. From the name of the restaurant to the interior decoration, the restaurant exudes a strong and warm Chinese style. There are many Chinese landscape paintings hanging inside and red lanterns embellished among them.

In the restaurant with elegant landscape paintings, there are guests from all over the world, speaking Chinese, English, Spanish, and French one after another. The waiter receives the guests while switching between English, Cantonese, and Mandarin to answer takeaway calls. Business is extremely good.

Tang Zixin helped them recommend the store's signature dishes such as pock-skinned suckling pig, barrel oil chicken, braised golden hook wings, fried duck feet with fried flowers, four-treasure stir-fried milk, and eight-treasure winter melon cup.

Tang Xinyi smiled and said: "Second sister, can the three of us eat so many dishes you recommend?"

Tang Zixin said angrily: "Second sister is treating you to a treat at noon. You don't have to worry about it. My brother-in-law and I will come over to accompany you when we are free. The dishes I just ordered for you are for five people. Xinyi, don't worry about it. So much, just eat well, drink well, and entertain the guests well!”

"That's good, thank you, second sister!"

After the three of them were seated, Jerry Yang raised the iced Coke in his hand and said with a smile: "Mr. Li, thank you! Your meeting with Mr. Moritz of Sequoia Capital last night seemed to be very effective, and you successfully passed on the pressure to Sequoia Capital. Decision-makers. Before I came, I received a call from Mr. Moritz, saying that Sequoia Capital’s decision-makers had begun to worry about the When an investor like you comes to my door, I am afraid that the investment decision-making committee of their company will meet in the afternoon to study my project! Whatever the outcome, I’ll thank you! Come on, I’ll give you both a drink!”

Li Xiaofan raised his glass happily and said: "Really? That would be great, Mr. Yang, I hope our cooperation can be successful!"

"Well, I hope so, thanks again!"

Later, in the chat with Li Xiaofan and Tang Xinyi, Yang Zhiyuan talked about some stories about the start-up of this Yahoo project last year.

He took a sip of iced Coke and sighed: "It was really hard for our partners and I to start this project last year, but it felt full of fun. It felt like jumping off a cliff, and sometimes it felt like being in a Thelma and Louise in the movie "Thelma and Louise" don't know how it will end, but they have to move forward bravely! We have dreams and want to use the Internet to do everything, but maybe nothing. We can’t do it! But we don’t care. We are still young. Even if we fail, we will not lose anything. The worst thing we can do is start over from scratch! We all do this project not only for money, but we wake up every day and find that there are so many Internet users around the world. When you log into our Yahoo website, you feel that your life is very fulfilling and what we do is very meaningful! No matter how hard it is, it’s worth it!”

After spending a short time with Yang Zhiyuan, Tang Yifan felt more and more that he was a unique and real person. Yahoo is very unique in the current technology world. Jerry Yang and Filo lead a group of friends and are making great strides into the vast yet unexplored Internet field...

People who start their business for reasons other than money often achieve unexpected and huge success in the end! So do Yahoo!

Jerry Yang found it very enlightening to communicate with this Chinese young man from Singapore. The young man's views and opinions on the Internet industry are very forward-looking.

"Mr. Yang, the circles under your eyes are a little dark. Did you not sleep well at night?" Tang Yifan was halfway through eating when he noticed that Yang Zhiyuan's face was full of tiredness.

Yang Zhiyuan smiled bitterly and said: "Well, recently, in order to cope with the increasing number of visits to the website and solve the bugs that keep appearing, a group of our colleagues sleep in the RV day and night to maintain the website and server and respond to problems at any time. Question. I can only sleep four or five hours a day recently. I’m here to treat you to dinner. I just have the opportunity to go out and get some fresh air..."

At this time, Tang Xinyi was already full of respect for Yang Zhiyuan and Yahoo, and began to understand how poor the sanitary conditions in their RV were.

Before the end of lunch, Li Xiaofan took out an envelope from his bag and handed it to Yang Zhiyuan: "Mr. Yang, here is three thousand US dollars in cash. Because according to the regulations of Singapore and the United States customs, passengers cannot bring too much cash with them when entering and exiting the country." , so I don’t have a lot of cash with me. I know your company is short of money right now. Maybe you can use these three thousand dollars for an emergency!”

Yang Zhiyuan declined: "Mr. Li, I can't take this money! We still have to distinguish between public and private matters. Although we are short of money now, I still can't take your personal money..."

"Mr. Yang, either way, this money will be used as advertising expenses for your company. How about your website help us make a smaller home page banner ad and a simple web page to test the waters?"

"This request is not difficult. What specific requirements do you have?"

Li Xiaofan raised the Casio QV-10 digital camera in his hand and said: "In this digital camera, I took some photos of our company's daily plastic products, sunglasses and other products. Please help me make a simple product introduction web page, and then put our company Just put your contact information!”

Jerry Yang smiled and said: "For us, this is too easy, not difficult at all!"

Li Xiaofan suggested: "Then let's go to your RV office together now?"

"Okay, I'm also wondering if our server has crashed, so let's go!"

When Tang Zixin personally brought a plate of desserts and fruits, he found that Li Xiaofan, Yang Zhiyuan and the other three had already stood up and were ready to leave.

Tang Zixin said: "Xinyi, Afan, and Mr. Yang, don't worry, eat desserts and fruits before you leave?"

"Second sister, we have to get busy, we'll talk about it when we go to your house tonight!"

"Are you in such a hurry?"

Tang Zixin looked at the backs of the three of them going away, feeling a little incredible: Tang Xinyi, who always liked food and playing around, became a different person after following Li Xiaofan...

Because Tang Xinyi's Casio QV-10 digital camera had ready-made digital photos of products, Yang Zhiyuan asked an assistant to export the products in it, and then simply made a product introduction webpage for Singapore Yifan Private Limited, and posted Li Xiaofan's company phone number and his mobile phone number.

Then a small banner ad was made on the homepage of Yahoo website: "We provide the most cost-effective and high-quality daily consumer products in the world!"

Then at around 4 pm, this banner ad was officially launched on Yahoo website.

Li Xiaofan quickly used Tang Xinyi's Casio QV-10 digital camera to take a picture of this historic moment.

Thursday, April 6, 1995: In a dilapidated second-hand RV on the campus of Stanford University in San Francisco, the first Internet advertisement of Singapore Yifan Pte Ltd was born on Yahoo website!