icq is in a state of loss. Both Silicon Valley venture capital and Wall Street institutions are equally aware of this, but they are all staring at icq.

Regardless of whether it is a loss or not, icq, as the founder of the Internet instant messaging industry and with tens of millions of users, is now the most eye-catching kid in the Internet industry.

In the current Internet industry, whether you lose money or not is something you need to worry about in the future. What Silicon Valley and Wall Street care about most now is traffic and users. Which website has the most visits and the most users will be the darling of the Internet. This is the case with Yahoo.

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And icq is also a leader among them, with 20 to 30 million users and a frighteningly high number of daily active users. The icq community has become a new platform for countless young users to showcase themselves.

Even if it is losing some money now, countless venture capital and institutions are staring at icq, waiting for it to start financing. Even if icq loses money, it will be able to make it back after it goes public. Yahoo has proven this...

"Currently, icq's debt has exceeded US$310 million. It is expected that by the end of the year, icq's losses and debt will reach more than US$400 million. In order to cope with the possible competition, icq will need to raise more than US$300 to US$500 million.

!" Irene said to Song Yang.

Acquisition of Xueleshan, Blizzard, and a series of extravagances, icq spent more than hundreds of millions of dollars. Of course, Song Yang and the American Investment Fund could not pay icq all in cash. They basically paid for it from the bank.

Borrowed.

With the current booming market of the Internet, banks are not worried about ICQ not paying back the money. Song Yang's current signboard is still quite loud.

Even the banks on Wall Street are eager to borrow more money from icq before they can afford it, so that they can legitimately reorganize icq and put it on the market. After that, they will probably earn several times more, so for icq's loans,

The bank is now responding to every request, and it has snowballed into a debt of several hundred million dollars.

When Song Yang heard what Irene said, he naturally understood what she meant. Wesley and other senior executives also looked at Song Yang. Financing for icq was just a gimmick. As long as the news was released, there must be a venture capital company.

, rush to invest, these debts are actually not stressful.

Eileen was actually asking Song Yang when icq would be listed. Once financing begins, given the current state of the Internet industry, it will definitely be listed within one or two years. Venture capital companies cannot wait.

Even if Amazon has been losing money for ten or eight years, it is true that it has been losing money for more than ten years, but it was also a loss after going public. If it dared not to go public, Bezos would have been bombarded by people in Silicon Valley and Wall Street.

Already.

Seeing everyone in the conference room, including Eileen, they all looked at Song Yang eagerly. Song Yang understood that Wall Street and Silicon Valley were probably waiting for news from him.

"We can start financing for icq," Song Yang thought for a while, and finally said in response to the expectations of Eileen, Wesley and others, "Let icq be listed on the market by the end of next year at the latest!"

Listed during the most frenzied period of the Internet in America, with the size and scale of icq, it will definitely be wildly touted. It cannot be as tepid as Double Click. When the Internet bubble bursts, not to mention the stock price will increase a hundred times.

, dozens of times is considered conservative, but it is estimated that this crop of leeks will be harvested within the next ten years...

In addition, Song Yang also needs to consider that in the instant messaging industry, Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, etc. will all enter, and the competition will become increasingly fierce. ICQ must be submitted to Nasdaq within the next two years at the latest, otherwise it will continue to be delayed.

It will be too late and things will change.

After hearing that Song Yang agreed to let icq start financing and proposed a listing plan, all the executives sitting in Irene's office couldn't help showing excitement on their faces, and Irene and Wesley were no exception.

What do people who enter the Internet industry do now? Is it not just fame and fortune, getting rich overnight, and achieving financial freedom? Otherwise, who would want to enter this industry!

"ICQ has been updated to version 4.0. Technically, icq is absolutely ahead of its peers!"

Like other websites, after icq went online, it has been constantly updating versions, large and small, more than a dozen times. There are not many new features, but a lot of bugs have been fixed. At least you don’t have to worry about it being down when you use it.

Once the machine is installed, as long as it can be used, it is considered qualified at this time.

Wesley, who is responsible for technology and holds the title of "Father of Instant Messaging" in Silicon Valley, said at this time, "There are other Internet companies now tentatively contacting icq, hoping to obtain icq's technology authorization!

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There are many Internet companies that want to enter the instant messaging industry, including previous forum websites, as well as websites such as Classmates, Open Diary, Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, and Netscape, etc., all of which are secretly preparing for their own instant messaging.

software.

But again, icq has too many patents in its hands, including emoticons, fonts, screenshots, p2p online transmission, groups, and more than 200 patents in the fields of instant messaging and social networking.

To put it bluntly, just like when Nokia fell, Nokia fell, but with the thousands of mobile phone patents in its hands, Apple, Samsung and other mobile phone brands still contribute hundreds of millions to Nokia every year.

If there is nothing wrong with the US patent licensing fee, sue Apple and other companies and get a compensation fee.

Today's icq can also do this. Even if icq loses its dominance in the social industry in the future, it can still rely on patents to let other peers pay tolls to icq!

Microsoft, Netscape and other companies are all trying to get patent licenses from icq, and it is too difficult to bypass icq and re-develop.

However, this situation cannot continue forever. If you want to rely on patents to block other competitors, it is still unrealistic in the current Internet industry. It is really urgent. At worst, you will have to file a patent lawsuit in the future.

Yes, Microsoft is an expert at this trick.

Even peers such as classmates and open diary have begun to imitate some of the functions of icq before they have obtained patent authorization. This is actually a sign.

"Try to hold back the instant messaging products of Yahoo, Microsoft, and AOL companies. You can license some patents to other companies. You have to wait until icq is launched!"

Song Yang told Wesley and others that this was to use patents to cut a crop of leeks from Microsoft, Yahoo and other companies, and to use patents to delay the development of these companies' instant messaging products and allow icq to be launched in advance.

In the Internet industry, the 80-20 rule is also prevalent. Once icq has the advantage, other MSN, Yahoo Messenger, aim, etc. will catch up with icq. It is not impossible, but it is not that easy. It is impossible to say that they will all be beaten by icq in the end.
Chapter completed!