Ellison and his Oracle joined the battle group and immediately made the battle exciting.
Old enemies, new rivals, old and new grudges, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms...
Each party thinks it is right, each party is criticizing the other two parties, and each party has a large group of supporters...
When al,n..., Microsoft's opponents rushed to the battlefield, the scene became even more chaotic.
This made the media almost crazy with joy.
Suddenly, the war between software giants and Internet upstarts suddenly became a hot headline in the United States. According to the usual habits of European and American media, this war was named - the Noise War!
Noise, English is ne. Each letter in it represents an important competitor of Microsoft. The first one is Netscape cape, the second one is Oracle...
I have to admit, those media outlets are quite talented!
However, amidst the smoke in the sky, a very interesting phenomenon emerged - the hotter the hot spot, the greater the traffic!
At the beginning, the war of words became more and more intense, and the parties even got really angry and wanted to tear the other parties into pieces.
But not long after, they were surprised to find that sales of Netscape browsers, Microsoft operating systems, and even Oracle's database products had skyrocketed?
And not only software products, but also PC sales have experienced a blowout?
This is actually not surprising. On the one hand, the computer industry has just reached the stage of full-scale explosion; on the other hand, such noise wars have a very good advertising effect.
For many Americans, high technologies such as computers seemed too far away from their lives at first. But now they are brainwashed by the news every day - PCs are our lives, and the Internet is our future...
And there are constantly technology experts, education experts, sociologists, politicians, etc., repeatedly making headlines in the media?
What is even more exciting is that an ordinary college student like Anderson went from having nothing to becoming the founder of a high-tech company worth US$100 million in just one year?
Many people can't help but think, it's okay for me to have sex with you!
In those ordinary families, children want to be fashionable. Not everyone can become a sports star or a cheerleader. Playing computers is also cool now! They can also stand out among their peers.
As parents, parents all over the world are actually the same. As long as it is for the future of their children, they are willing to invest. Especially the huge middle-class families in the United States. Isn't it just buying a PC?
Now that they have purchased a PC, they will definitely install Microsoft's operating system, install some commonly used software, apply for dial-up Internet access, buy a browser, or customize a personal homepage...?
In this case, let's keep arguing!
Now it has slowly turned into a publicity and advertising campaign. Each company invested in publicity expenses in the media, formulated professional... quarrel articles, and began to put on an elaborate show. It also completely relaxed restrictions and even frequently ginseng and cock.
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Don't tell me, a well-packaged quarrel is definitely more exciting than an on-the-spot quarrel.
Now the Noise War has turned into a talk show that is a national carnival. The media's ratings are also rising steadily, and the sales of various high-tech products are also jumping...
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In less than a month, the number of individual users installing de in North America exceeded 3 million, an astonishing increase of more than 80%?
All high-tech companies are also full of food, and the entire Silicon Valley is like a carnival...
To be honest, Parallel America has also benefited from this wave of dividends. Facing the influx of customized homepage orders, Martin was so happy that he almost cried.
And in the current browser market, Netscape's market share has climbed to around 60, and Parallel has also risen to 30.
This is the rhythm of the boss fighting with the second and directly clearing out the others.
By this time, Martin could no longer sit still. Netscape can be valued at US$100 million, so our parallel line of US$50 million is not too much, right? Then won’t my dream of becoming a millionaire come true soon?
And Martin also has the innocence unique to programmers of this era.
If you have a chance to get financing, you can boldly burn money. You can continue to develop Parallel Browser and other programs. If a high-tech company does not have its own technology development department, is it still embarrassing to go out and say hello in Silicon Valley?
"...Li, this is the situation in the United States now." Martin shouted excitedly, "They are all crazy, and the entire Silicon Valley is crazy. We must join in! Otherwise, we will be beaten by them.
Throw him under the bus! Fakiyu—!”
Li Yuan touched his chin, feeling a little funny.
The wings of this butterfly are so powerful, huh? It actually created a new noise war? And the growth of Internet users has also greatly accelerated?
There are also changes in the historical line. Not only did Netscape appear in advance, but according to Martin's introduction this time, even Yahoo was established in advance in the near future?
"Li, are you listening to me? When will we release the news about the financing?" Martin continued to shout.
When asked like this, Li Yuan felt a little strange: "Martin, according to you, Netscape's financing on Wall Street was robbed by investors. So have any investors taken the initiative to contact us?"
"Uh...no one has officially contacted us yet," Martin replied hesitantly. He quickly explained, "Li, no one has officially contacted us yet, but there are still a lot of people asking for information. They should all be waiting and watching...right?"
Li Yuan was a little confused: "How can we wait and see? Are they so not optimistic about our parallel line?"
Logically speaking, the market share of Parallel Browser should be as high as 50% of that of Netscape Browser. Not to mention the agency rights of Haezhi System, and the bonus of King of Home Pages? And those of traffic monetization
Packing purchase orders?
One thing to note is that although Netscape's browser main business revenue is twice as high as Parallel Line's, how much other operating income can't support Parallel Line? If you count the total, Parallel Line is actually not much lower.
There is also the expenditure part. Netscape has established a huge development team and has now begun to burn huge amounts of money.
Parallel Line not only has no development team and does not need to burn any money, but orders for customized homepages have been quickly subcontracted to China, and profits have increased visibly.
If we really compare the company's profitability, and I don't really want to brag about it, can the parallel lines throw off Netscape's eighteen streets?
Of two companies like this, one is highly praised by investors, but the other turns a blind eye? Isn't this abnormal?
Martin explained helplessly: "Li, they think that browsers still have market prospects, but the homepage has been losing money. They think that sooner or later we will have no money to burn. When we can't survive, they can buy shares at a low price and abandon the homepage completely.
Customized business…”
Li Yuan suddenly realized.
Since Parallel is still a privatized company, there is no need to disclose its financial affairs to the outside world. Moreover, it was established so short that there are almost no tax payment records from the tax bureau.
The finance is outsourced to an accounting firm, and those accountants are also kept confidential. Even most of the employees in Parallel Line know nothing about it. Executives like Martin, Elna, and Huo Laien know the company's operating conditions.
.But they will all have incentive equity and will certainly not disclose the company's actual operating conditions.
Therefore, those investors can only make wild guesses - according to the current market situation in Silicon Valley, the remuneration for programmers to create a homepage reaches 4,500 US dollars, but the price of parallel lines is only 200 US dollars? Moreover, they also outsource a large number of programs to those programmers.
Full payment of $4,500?
Are you out of your mind? For the sake of the reputation of being the "King of Home Pages", you have to spend hundreds of dollars on each order? No amount of money is enough to waste that much, right?
Okay! Customizing the homepage at a cheaper price can indeed stimulate the sales of Parallel Browser. But no matter how much the stimulation is, it will only reach half of the Netscape Browser?
In other words, when there is no money to burn in the future, the "King of Homepages" will no longer exist, and the sales of browsers will definitely plummet? Where can you see it as clearly as the Netscape browser? Now it is so powerful that you can see it at a glance.
Can you clearly judge a bright future?
So, let’s wait and see for the time being!
It should be said that the investors' ideas are very logical. But in fact, there is a problem of information gap here - investors think that Parallel's financial situation is very bad, especially the customized homepage is losing money; in fact,
The financial status of Parallel Line is very good, but the customized homepage business has become one of the fastest growing profit points?
After understanding this, Li Yuan was immediately happy: "Martin, there is no need to worry. If any investors ask, then tell them that we have no idea of financing for the time being."
Since Parallel Line has a large amount of income every day and the company has no place to burn money, Li Yuan doesn't care about financing or not.
And the longer the delay, the higher the company’s valuation.
Just like Netscape in the original history. Now it is only 100 million US dollars. When it went public more than a year later, it directly reached 2.7 billion US dollars. Later, it once reached a total market value of 10 billion US dollars?
Therefore, financing must be raised, otherwise Wall Street will not be able to pass the test. They will never let people go it alone, and listing on Nasdaq will be greatly difficult.
But if you delay it for a year and a half, it can still be done. If you hide behind Netscape and develop quietly, the valuation of Parallel Lines can also become higher!
"Ah?" Martin was shocked, "Li, didn't you say you were going to go public in the future?"
"Of course we are preparing to go public. This goal will not change." Li Yuan said with a smile, "But our strategy is to keep a low profile and adopt follow-up tactics for the time being."
"Following tactics?"
Li Yuan chuckled and made up a reason casually: "Do you think being a leader is easy? Facing a powerful opponent like Microsoft, you still need to always be wary of the competitors behind you?"
When Martin heard this, it seemed to make sense: "I still think it's good to be the leader. There are even many people who follow it. Now Netscape has become a billion-dollar company, and Andreessen has become an Internet leader."
"Stop talking nonsense. Anderson had developed the ac browser before and shared it for free in Silicon Valley. Everyone in the industry knows his name. Can you and I do it? Jim Clark is the director of a $4 billion high-tech company
President, or university professor, do you and I have such a status?"
"Don't you have a pretty face and shoot dandelions? This reputation is even more famous!" Martin retorted unconvinced.
"Fuck!" Li Yuan scolded with a smile, "Can this be the same? Let's face reality and run with it! Maybe Netscape will make a mistake, and we still have a chance to surpass it."
"Then a development team should be established. In my opinion, we should develop a new generation of browsers as soon as possible. Also, the development of tl production software, the development of other image and text programs..."
Li Yuan interrupted directly: "Do we have so much money to burn?"
"Then give priority to developing a new generation of browsers?"
"Is it necessary to develop it?" Li Yuan sneered.
In fact, later on, Microsoft's dw operating system not only bundled the browser, but also bundled office software, image software, slideshow software, web page production software, and even small database software...
All of them are free? Why develop those things? Just spend money to watch fireworks?
"Martin, as long as we maintain profitability and ensure sufficient cash flow, we can acquire other small professional companies if we need them in the future. Why invest in development ourselves? This way we won't make detours, and at least we won't make mistakes!"
"Forget it. You are the boss, you have the final say. Alas!" Seeing that Li Yuan didn't take any action, Martin was somewhat discouraged.
Li Yuan noticed that something was wrong with Martin's mood. He felt that he still needed to get a shot of blood: "Let's do this! The technical team is still needed. The research direction... is the Internet community!"
Speaking from the bottom of my heart, sometimes the reborn bastards also have their own troubles, and it’s hard to explain certain things clearly.
Logically speaking, after the browser, the logical development should be to develop portal websites and search engines. However, both portal websites and search engines have extremely strong media attributes.
As a Chinese, Li Yuan has nothing to do with domestic development. But if you switch to the United States? Everyone should understand. Even the later Douyin was like that, let alone direct Internet media. Therefore, in the stage of obscene development, it is best to
Don't even touch the edge ball.
The other is the profit model. In the early stages of the Internet, no matter browsers, portals or search engines, they did not have a very reliable profit model. They were just burning money to see who could survive to the end?
Here, Li Yuan simply chose the Internet community. It gave Martin and the others something to do and saved them from too many ideas.
Moreover, the Internet community does not involve any sensitive issues. It is nothing more than chatting in forums and stealing food online... By the way, there is also the development of Internet games. However, Li Yuan plans to keep the game development part in China. It needs to be kept strictly confidential for the time being.
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"Martin! That's it! Be careful - keep a low profile!"
