Google is in a period of expansion. As long as you work hard and do your job well, it is easy to get promoted and get a raise, and it is easier to do business.
Judging from the overall environment of Silicon Valley, there has always been a talent gap. The market size continues to expand with the addition of new Internet users. In addition, hot money from all over the world is constantly flowing in. There are no internal or external worries.
For Silicon Valley super rookies like Google.
Even if there are problems, they will be covered up by prosperity and become trivial troubles.
Sitting in a conference room for a meeting with a group of senior executives, the atmosphere was harmonious and relaxed. They were mainly talking about the follow-up development plan. There were not many problems that needed to be solved, and they could basically be solved by throwing money.
Su Yehao does not plan to release too many shares prematurely for the time being, so he would rather pay more bonuses to Google employees than comply with the majority of people's wishes and take Google to the Nasdaq as soon as possible.
The Yanmoji Group is even more valuable and has the opportunity to raise more than one billion US dollars in funds, waiting to be used in the cold winter period after the Internet bubble burst.
However, Google's development time is too short. It took less than half a year after being acquired by him.
If Google were to be listed now, the total market value would not exceed 200 million U.S. dollars. The funds that could be raised during the IPO would only be tens of millions of U.S. dollars at most. Su Yehao could easily take out this amount of money and sell it at a low price.
The shares are clearly not in his interest.
As for the option rewards, the big deal is to give them more now and less when they go public. Su Yehao won't feel bad...
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After the meeting.
After declining Danielle Kenning's proposal to go to dinner together, Su Yehao went home, picked up Yin Liuli, and drove straight to San Francisco.
The venue for the Christie's auction will be the St. Francis Hotel. This historic hotel is located next to Union Square. It is already one of the landmark buildings in San Francisco and has hosted many famous figures.
After getting off the car on the side of the road, Su Yehao said to Yin Liuli:
"When I take pictures of what I want, I can leave early and go shopping with you nearby in the evening? Or just rest in this hotel tonight, and then go back to Silicon Valley after shopping tomorrow morning. There will be a lot of business this time
Let’s talk. If I miss it, I won’t necessarily have time to play with you again.”
Yin Liuli's character has always been Buddhist. She smiled and told her, "I can do it. You can arrange it as you like. The temperature here is colder than I thought. It's best to buy some thicker clothes."
"OK, let Linda Yun introduce it to you. She is a local and is much more familiar with it than me."
Su Yehao entered the hotel and as soon as he came to the auction site with the invitation letter, he saw many familiar Silicon Valley rich people.
Yang Zhiyuan, the founder of Yahoo, was standing there alone looking through the album. When he saw Su Yehao, he smiled and raised his hand, and took the initiative to say hello: "Mr. Su is here too, and you have such a beautiful female companion with you. I know your taste."
Okay, when will you make arrangements for me?"
"Okay, as long as your wife has no objection, I will make arrangements for you."
Su Yehao walked up to him and introduced each other: "Yin Liuli, my girlfriend, her hometown is in Hualien. This Mr. Yang Zhiyuan is one of the richest super-rich people in Silicon Valley. A large part of my worth is due to him.
Earn only by light."
Yin Liuli smiled and reached out to shake Yang Zhiyuan's hand.
Yang Zhiyuan is already married. His wife is a Costa Rican woman of Japanese descent. Su Yehao once met her in Silicon Valley.
After saying hello.
Yang Zhiyuan said to Yin Liuli: "Hualien is a good place with beautiful scenery and very nurturing people. No wonder Miss Yin is so beautiful. Mr. Xiao Su is young and promising, so you have to pay close attention."
Yin Liuli continued to smile, held Su Yehao's arm, and replied, "I will."
Su Yehao changed the topic at this moment and asked: "What treasure did Mr. Yang like today? Communicate in advance so that we don't compete with each other and get a discount from the seller who sent it to the auction."
Yang Zhiyuan smiled and said:
"How dare I argue with you? ICQ is about to go on the market, with billions of dollars in pocket, I can't afford to offend you. Tonight, you came here for that Van Gogh oil painting, right? Van Gogh has quite a few works.
, but most of them are kept in museums, and not one piece of work may come out every year. The last time "Sunflower" appeared was more than ten years ago, and you couldn't even buy it with money."
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"Under the Stormy Sky, this Van Gogh painting looks more comfortable, but it is not my target. The Qianlong Doucai bottle is. I plan to give it to my grandpa. The old man in the family should like this very much.
"
After listening to Su Yehao's words, Yang Zhiyuan nodded and told:
"That's great. My target is neither Van Gogh nor the bottle you are interested in. My wife likes Jeff Koons's giant artwork "Balloon Dog" and plans to buy it quietly and put it in the warehouse as a souvenir.
Give it to her someday."
"Is this the romance of married men?"
Su Yehao joked and then added:
"That balloon dog, I seem to have some impression of it. It's a big, valuable stainless steel sculpture, right? It comes in several colors. If there are other things, I want to buy one and put it at home. It feels very interesting."
I don’t care whether it’s interesting or not, but Su Yehao remembers seeing this thing in the news and selling it for a sky-high price.
At that time, he was still thinking that it was really easy for rich people to make money, and stainless steel could be sold at such high prices, so he was somewhat impressed.
Yang Zhiyuan smiled and said:
"What's romantic or not? If two people live together, how can your life be nourishing? My wife likes rose red. If you really want to buy it, you can ask Jeff Koons. He told me that orange and blue
He has a big dog in his hands. This rose-red one was bought by the gallery today, so I have no choice but to hold my nose and spend more money, come over to attend the auction, and ask my assistant to push Jeff's number to you later."
"Then you really need to push it to me as soon as possible. Otherwise, if you buy it at a high price later, I will spend a lot of money in vain."
"Mr. Su likes to joke. To use your Hong Kong dialect, something worth hundreds of thousands of dollars is a trivial matter. I feel like someone is hyping up this sculptor. The value of the work is likely to rise. Buy it and take a gamble.
, it’s also quite interesting.”
Yang Zhiyuan obviously knew Jeff Koons, but Su Yehao knew nothing about him.
However, judging from the sky-high prices for works sold in the future, it is indeed very likely that they will be hyped. According to the conventional operation, it is usually to buy a large number of works of a certain artist, and then wildly publicize them, and sell the left hand to the right hand at the auction to increase the auction price.
value.
For example, if you spend 100,000 yuan to buy ten paintings, the total cost is 1 million. If you sell one of them for 1 million, the value of the remaining nine paintings will also increase accordingly.
Of course, if you want to speculate, you must have the basis for speculation.
Jeff Koons's stainless steel oversized balloon dog sculpture undoubtedly has an eye-catching effect, and there is indeed a basis for hype...
Before the auction started, other acquaintances from Silicon Valley came over to say hello to Yang Zhiyuan and Su Yehao.
Su Yehao didn't know many strangers, but most people working in Silicon Valley knew him, including a senior vice president of Black Rock Group and a head of the Silicon Valley investment department of SoftBank of Japan.
As if thinking of something, Yang Zhiyuan suddenly asked him: "Your Google is developing very fast. What are your plans for the future?"
As early as when he met Yang Zhiyuan, Su Yehao guessed that he would talk about this. Dan Ding replied:
"You can actually pay attention to a small company like this that I invested in. Doesn't it mean that it is going to be popular? The market is so big and it will be even bigger in the future. Even if I don't invest, someone else will enter the search engine field. Very soon.
It’s just a normal business investment.”
Yang Zhiyuan didn't care too much. He smiled and sighed and said: "Yes, Yahoo's return rate is no longer as good as those of small start-up companies. It can easily be hundreds or thousands of times. It's too scary."
Hear the words.
Su Yehao couldn't laugh or cry, and said to him: "Isn't Yahoo's rate of return thousands of times higher? When you started your business, you didn't have much start-up capital."
"Yeah, but I'm definitely not as good as you. If I want to develop, I have to look for funds from outside and release a large portion of my shares cheaply. As a result, I feel a little uncomfortable on the board of directors now." Yang Zhiyuan said.
Su Yehao looked around.
He lowered his voice and said with a smile: "Don't say this nonsense. If someone hears it, the stock price will probably fall..."