Google has grown from a small, insignificant startup to a rising star in Silicon Valley.
It is now one of the most well-known startups in Silicon Valley, attracting countless speculators with dreams to join. This group of talents hopes to become a member of Google before it goes public.
Workers in Silicon Valley know this.
Rather than getting a dead salary, looking forward to options and equity rewards is the real shortcut to getting rich. Otherwise, even if you work hard for ten years, you can't expect to buy a good house in the Silicon Valley area with high housing prices and drive a yacht all day long.
The party was even more of a dream.
As for starting your own business, although the returns may be extremely high and can directly lead to financial freedom, the risks cannot be ignored.
The hole in the storm is gradually being taken over by others.
There are more and more successful companies, and fewer and fewer opportunities are left.
The precedents of countless start-up teams going bankrupt have reminded people that unless they come up with an excellent idea that they think is unparalleled, or find that a friend around them has come up with a good idea, Silicon Valley workers will not easily resign.
In the early years, I was so bold and brave.
then.
After weighing the pros and cons, you will find that directly betting on entrepreneurial teams that show signs of success is both safe and promising.
Firstly, you don’t have to pay out of pocket, and secondly, you can hope to earn income other than salary. Not only will your income be guaranteed during droughts and floods, but it will also be easier to get promoted and get a salary increase than in established Internet companies.
It is precisely because there are so many people who think this way that it is very easy for high-quality start-up companies like Google to attract talents to join. Everyone works together to think about the company, often showing extremely strong vitality.
There are examples of emoji groups first.
Everyone believes that Google, which has been valued at US$800 million by institutions, will soon be listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange.
Considering that when Yanmoji Group went public, it distributed equity awards worth tens of millions of dollars and provided opportunities to purchase additional shares at low prices, it was quite generous.
When I went to Stanford, Harvard, Yale and other prestigious schools for recruitment in the first half of the year, Google was even more attractive than giants such as Microsoft, Yahoo, and AOL, which was undoubtedly a good thing for Su Yehao.
By the way.
For the employees of the Yanmoji Group who chose to spend money to buy the original shares, the average purchase price was only six dollars per share, which rose to more than eleven dollars on the day of listing.
As long as I hold the stock until now, the income has reached 200% so far...
Early eleven in the morning.
Su Yehao appeared downstairs at Google's headquarters in a customized Rolls-Royce Phantom Head of State bulletproof car. He looked at the green sign and sighed deeply.
Yin Liuli was present before and heard the conversation between him and Yang Zhiyuan. Since a big business was involved, she did not dare to interrupt.
On the road just now, seeing Su Yehao distracted and thinking about something, Yin Liuli didn't bother him either.
It was only then that she asked in a low voice: "Acquiring it for US$1.2 billion, do you think this deal is a good deal? It seems like you don't want to sell it. Could it be that you have something to worry about?"
After getting off the car.
Su Yehao put his hands in his trousers pockets. In order to meet with people from Qualcomm today, he dressed more formally. He wore black trousers and a white shirt, but he did not have the habit of wearing a tie.
This already counts as face.
Otherwise, shorts, slippers and short sleeves are his favorite way to dress in July.
Even a pair of crocodile leather shoes worth six thousand dollars is still not as comfortable as slippers. Unfortunately, as a boss, you have to take care of your image.
When I met Yang Zhiyuan before, he was only wearing jeans and short-sleeved shirts.
As a well-known super-rich man, he has long since skipped the stage of needing to decorate himself with external objects. Even if he wears flip-flops when shopping, he will be judged as "approachable" by others.
Unlike those Wall Street elites who always like suits and leather shoes to look domineering.
After hearing Yin Liuli's question, Su Yehao said decisively:
"Before, it was just talk. You go in with one ear and out with the other. Don't worry about it. Google is in a period of rapid expansion. By the end of this year, the number of users is likely to exceed 10 million. We know that it has great potential.
Why did I sell it so early? What's more important is that Google doesn't need me to worry about it. It has matured enough to learn to make money for me. It would be difficult to get such a good company back after selling it."
Yin Liuli continued to ask:
"Then why were you so entangled before? Sitting in the car without saying a word, I thought you were threatened by him and were angry just now."
Su Yehao sneered:
"Threatening me? Yahoo can put some pressure on me. SoftBank of Japan has not yet dealt with my strength. Just now, I was mainly considering whether I should accept a financing. After all, Google burns money quite badly. I seem to be a little nervous. Just like Yang Zhiyuan
I will not choose not to suppress Google just because I have met a few times and miss old friendship, nor will I obediently offer up such a good company because of a few words from Yang Zhiyuan, and the other party is still a Japanese company."
"Oh, as long as you're not angry anyway, I seem to be too stupid to help you with big business."
After Yin Liuli finished speaking, Su Yehao joked: "Be more confident and remove the two words."
"???"
Smiling, Yin Liuli snorted softly, and then told: "The name of SoftBank in Japan is a bit special, its full name is Software Bank, right? I seem to have read about it from the information, and it has cooperated with the bank to launch fund products.
, raise funds from the port city.”
"Well, it is a venture capital company, similar to my KOKO Venture Capital. The difference is that I mainly use my own funds to invest externally, while it not only does external private equity, but also raises financing through listing. Now the market is good, and it is easy to make money by investing.
, when the market turns cold and its financial products suffer losses, problems will arise. In the future, I may be able to find some money from outside, expand the scale of investment, increase my influence, and earn some pocket money...
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As Su Yehao talked, he walked into the Google company. Many employees saw him, nodded and smiled and said hello.
The outside world praises SoftBank boss as very smart.
However, when it comes to looking for investment targets, Su Yehao has never been afraid of anyone.
The scale of SoftBank in this era is far smaller than the SoftBank in Su Yehao's impression, with a total market value of only over 10 billion US dollars.
When it was first listed in Tokyo last year, some brokers recommended SoftBank shares to him, and he would only buy them if his head was wet. Su Yehao obviously believed in himself more than he believed in Masayoshi Son.
On the way to Silicon Valley, he just did a simple calculation. Although there have been a lot of big projects recently, the capital chain is still relatively healthy.
The Kai Tak Cyberport project mainly involves exchanging land for loans, which is equivalent to borrowing money from a bank to buy land. The entire development cycle is expected to be ten years, so there is no need to spend too much money in the short term.
For the City of Thousand Cores project, land can also be obtained from bank loans to build factories.
As for most of the wafer foundries and lithography machine research and development plans, the preparation process will take a long time. By then, it is estimated that the stocks invested in Yahoo, Amazon and other companies will have been cashed out.
As Nasdaq continues to rise, the funds in financial accounts have soared from around US$3 billion some time ago to around US$4 billion. If it continues to rise, there will actually be enough money left to cover Google's expenses.
The fundamental reason why Su Yehao began to consider external financing was that he suddenly realized that he had been living alone for a long time. As a result, if Google was really suppressed by Yahoo, he didn't even have an ally who could help.
The so-called suppression is likely not limited to the commercial category.
If the media is used to spread news about user data leaks or fabricated executive scandals, it will definitely not be good for Google's growth momentum. These practices are old traditions among American companies and can be used internally and externally.
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This is related to the money-first atmosphere in the United States. In order to win, you will do anything you can.
Therefore, it is probably right to think of the worst in everything.
As long as Google's development is curbed, Yahoo's market value may increase by tens to tens of billions of dollars. The situation of being dominated by one company will make investors more confident in it.
Faced with such considerable benefits.
Even if Su Yehao trusts Yang Zhiyuan as a person, there is no guarantee that other Yahoo shareholders will not use some tricks.
According to Yang Zhiyuan's previous statement, other Yahoo shareholders were obviously eyeing Google and excluded him from Yahoo shareholders to form a new small circle.
If you think about it further, Su Yehao considers himself an outsider. Apart from some vague fame, his foundation is seriously lacking.
With the arrogance and xenophobic character of the United States, as the interests involved increase, there is no guarantee that when Yahoo takes action, other venture capital, funds and other institutions will not seize the opportunity to take action together, and may even affect other plans.
After considering these considerations, Su Yehao came up with the idea of advancing Google's financing plan.
If we can hold on for a while longer and have the opportunity to get some more money back, we can also use it to fund Google’s development in the next two to three years. Anyway, investors will lose money by then, and we can blame the poor market environment. With him, Su Yehao
What does it matter?
When the industry enters a cold period and Yahoo has no time to take action against Google, it may be possible to gain a few more years of golden development.
Other companies care about market value and earnings, but Su Yehao has only focused on traffic from the beginning.
Therefore, what others see as a disaster is an opportunity in his eyes. The Yanmoji Group’s winter plan was well prepared last year, and Google has not yet settled on it. It seems that they can take advantage of the opportunity of being targeted by Yahoo to reasonably announce the Series A round.
Financing plan.
[To be honest, I have been using Yeguo to read and catch up on books recently. I can switch sources and read aloud with many sounds. www. Android and Apple are available.]
If you think about it from another angle, after the open competition with Yahoo, you can reasonably sell your Yahoo stocks and cash out the money in your pocket. This can be said to kill two birds with one stone.
Before meeting with people from Google, Su Yehao thought about these things first and immediately felt confident.
When he came to the top floor of the company, he called CEO Larry Page, Chief Technology Officer Sergey Brin, Chief Operating Officer Danielle Kenin, plus O and other senior executives to the conference room.
After showing up, he pretended to be worried and said:
"Everyone, our difficulty is coming."
"Yahoo's Yang Zhiyuan asked me to sell Google to him for only US$1.2 billion. He was undoubtedly worried about our outstanding performance and was trying to block our signal."
"Although the company is not that valuable now, in my eyes, the Google you jointly built is worth at least 10 billion U.S. dollars, and may even surpass Yahoo's achievements."
"First of all, congratulations to everyone. This proves that the value we have created has made Yahoo panic. But the key is, what do you think should be done next..."