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April 30, 2001, the last day of this beautiful April.
A grand signing ceremony was held at the Royal Palace of the Netherlands.
Cathay Pacific Airways representative Zhang Shuguang signed an agreement with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Chairman Norvell, announcing that the two parties have officially completed merger negotiations and established a huge aviation company across Eurasia, committed to competing in the world aviation market.
Cathay Pacific paid US$1.18 billion and assumed US$4.6 billion in bank debt to acquire KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.
The two parties compete in the global aviation market according to the model of one aviation group, two brands, overall planning and independent operation. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has a certain degree of autonomy in operations and can maintain its original fleet, flight attendants, ground staff and logistics.
Administrative staff is stable.
at the signing ceremony
"Is it him? The short, fat guy with the tall beard."
"That's right, Chairman, that is Count Van Basten, who owns 1.83% of the equity in the reorganized Cathay Pacific, ranking 11th among all shareholders." Wang Huiyang took a look and introduced in a low voice.
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"So, he is qualified to join the 11th Board of Directors."
"That's the theory."
The corner of Wang Yaocheng's mouth curled up slightly. Business management is not just about playing house and doing business. If you want to join the board of directors and participate in decision-making, you must first ask the major shareholders if they are willing?
Perhaps aware of the glances directed at him, Count Van Basten glanced over with an unfriendly gaze. When he saw the tall Wang Yaocheng, he couldn't help but be startled, and stared back without showing any signs of weakness.
"Haha, let me inform Zhang Shuguang that Count Van Basten and the representatives he sent to the company need special attention, do you know?"
"clear."
Wang Huiyang felt secretly happy;
Count Van Basten, who does not know how to live or die, dares to provoke the boss at this time, which is really a good move.
If the boss hadn't paid any attention to this little bug, he could have crushed him to death in minutes.
This is not a crushing to death in the sense of violence, but a key attack using commercial competition methods. Large multinational companies have a very wide network of contacts.
If you want to suppress a wealthy man from Northern Europe, there are 100 ways to kill him. It's really easy.
Wang Yaocheng has no time to get angry with a paranoid right-wing white supremacist. There are many such people, and there will be many in the future. They will always be encountered in European and American societies, and they will often jump out and disgust people.
Things in the Netherlands were settled. At this moment, Wang Yaocheng was eager to return home. In the past few months, there were a lot of matters waiting to be dealt with in the United States. He politely declined the invitation from the Dutch royal family.
Wang Yaocheng was quite indifferent to this civilian royal family with a minimal presence in Europe.
In these nearly six weeks, the Dutch royal family has not sent out a formal invitation or anything, and when the news came through other channels;
At this critical moment of important negotiations, we do not want to send the wrong message to the people.
Okay, why do you feel so good about yourself?
After the trip to the Netherlands, Wang Yaocheng led his team to fly to Los Angeles, where there was a mountain of work waiting for him. The trip to the Netherlands had been delayed for too long.
Ten days later
Silicon Valley Red Hat
Wang Yaocheng walked out of the office easily. This is a post-modernist building with a steel structure, wood, and glass. The interior shows simple and concise lines, combined with light-colored wood and transparent glass, giving people a clean and bright feeling.
"Hi boss, you look great."
"Thank you Kells, I'm very impressed by your industrial design on the Oppo brand v3 mobile phone, especially those great sharp lines, it's great. Do you have any good ideas recently?"
"Boss, the v3 mobile phone replacement product laboratory is being worked on. You can come and take a look when you have time."
"Okay, I will definitely go."
After happily greeting the people around him, Wang Yaocheng came to the leisure area on the second floor.
There are free coffee and desserts, free drinks and ready-to-eat snacks, a spacious sports area equipped with professional sports equipment and rock climbing facilities, and even a mini forest built with green plants.
The air inside is fresh and vines are crisscrossing the area. We have put a lot of thought into it and tried our best to provide the best service to the researchers.
Wang Yaocheng strolled to the Chinese hot food area, which offers Chongqing noodles, Yunnan rice noodles, Shaxian snacks and even ice cream sundaes, fresh fruits, etc.
Of course, everything is free.
In order to create the best welfare benefits for scientific and technical personnel, Red Hat has spared no effort. In fact, these expenses are not very large, but they are widely praised by scientific research dogs.
When I first saw it, there were quite a lot of people passing by. When I saw the boss coming, everyone said hello one after another.
"Good boss."
"Good afternoon, boss."
Wang Yaocheng smiled and nodded in return. The science and engineering man who was not good at words had nothing new to say hello to.
Almost all the men from science and engineering who come to dine are wearing pure cotton T-shirts issued by the company. This kind of pure cotton T-shirts from mainland China are soft and comfortable. The company provides a dozen T-shirts every month as a welfare benefit.
In the autumn and winter show season, it's just pullover long-sleeved T-shirts. Except for the change in color, everything else is almost the same.
This is the characteristic of a science and engineering man who focuses on research. He doesn't pay attention to food and clothing. He wears T-shirts from the beginning to the end of the year and throws them away when they get dirty. He usually gets free meals from the company and has almost no requirements for life.
However, everyone has a supreme version of the oppo brand v3 mobile phone with the highest configuration, and the oppo brand laptop used is also the highest configuration, the same is true for the desktop computer, and there are even modifications at the level of electronic enthusiasts, so they are quite willing to spend money in this regard.
Wang Yaocheng likes to sit down and chat with everyone when he has nothing to do, which is also a good way to relax.
"Hey boss, come here, we are all here."
The one who said hello was Sergey Brin. He and Larry Page were sitting in the rotating booth. Both of them were wearing company-issued short-sleeved T-shirts and were smiling toothlessly.
Under the leadership of the two of them, Google has developed very well, especially the unique web crawler search engine which is very efficient and has quickly occupied the Internet search market. The number of searches per day has rapidly increased from 10,000 to 120 million.
This is the current era.
Silicon Valley Internet high-tech companies are closely following the leading company Yahoo. Yahoo's business strategy has been studied very thoroughly, and there are countless imitators.
Most of these high-tech companies mainly create portal websites, covering social news, hot topics, sports, military, finance, and gossip news.
Similarly, I imitated the ecosystem built by Yahoo, established the BBC forum, launched the same products similar to Weibo, set up e-mails, launched half-screen ads, etc., and learned a lot.
It's a pity that you can't learn the essence of Yahoo culture by imitating others.
This development trend has caused everyone to ignore the importance of search websites, including the leading company Yahoo's website.
Sergey Brin and Larry Page keenly discovered this, and the company is committed to researching search engine patents and using simple, clear and efficient search services to establish the core business that is the pillar of the company's survival.
from beginning to end
Wang Yaocheng, who is familiar with historical development, said nothing and quietly watched the rapid rise of Google, feeling like he was witnessing history.
Hahahaha
Wang Yaocheng walked over and saw two people in front of them, each with a bowl of Chongqing noodles and a large plate of fruit about half eaten, which was probably their lunch.
"Man, you two are already successful high-tech entrepreneurs. Is it really okay to come here every day to enjoy the company's free meals?"
"Boss, these company meals are really great. The things Larry Page and I make look like shit and taste more like, Oh my God! I can't even imagine how the two of us are still alive today, please forgive me.
I said it casually, but it's all true."
"Uh... This reason is so strong that I have no words to refute it." Wang Yaocheng could only shake his head and sigh.
Sergey Brin laughed happily. Among the entrepreneurial duo, he was more outgoing, and Sergey Brin generally took the lead in communicating with business partners.
Larry Page has symptoms of communication disorder and is not good at communicating with others.
"I saw there is another bowl here. Hey, it should be rice noodles. Can you two eat three bowls?" Wang Yaocheng pointed to the table with some confusion. Next to the two bowls of Chongqing noodles, there was leftover rice noodles from the night.
Soup.
"Oh, boss, before we had time to report to you, Mr. Masayoshi Son of SoftBank Group came over to negotiate with us today, but he just left."
After hearing Sergey Brin's nonchalant words, Wang Yaocheng couldn't help laughing; "Is it wrong, guys, when Mr. Sun Zhengyi comes over, you treat him to rice noodles? It's still free."
"We also eat this ourselves, and it tastes pretty good. Larry Page and I have been living in the company for half a month. We eat this every morning, noon, and night. We alternate between Chongqing noodles, Yunnan rice noodles, and Shaxian snacks.
, sometimes I also eat some fried chicken legs and hamburgers and fries.”
"I've been at the company for half a month, so where will you sleep?"
"I sleep in the office, which happens to have a three-person sofa and a shower room. I feel there is no need to go home."
Wang Yaocheng smiled bitterly and shook his head. Once he started working, he would forget about food and sleep, and never pay attention to the quality of life. How high can you expect from a stereotyped man in science and engineering?
In Silicon Valley, dating and marriage are a big problem for high-income men in science and engineering. They are not good at communicating, let alone pleasing girls, and their life skills are basically blank.
The T-shirts issued by the company are worn all year round. Sergey Brin and Larry Page also do the same as company executives. This kind of life looks like asceticism to outsiders, but they enjoy it.
Enjoy the fun of writing code, discover the special beauty in boring numbers, and be deeply immersed in it.
"Boss, Mr. Masayoshi Son of SoftBank Group wanted to invest in Google, but he backed down in front of our asking price. We asked for 30 million U.S. dollars. Mr. Masayoshi Son may not be willing to part with the money, so... the talks fell apart."
"He will definitely feel deeply guilty for today's decision. This is an unforgivable investment mistake." Wang Yaocheng commented calmly.
"Wow! The boss's reaction was really right. Larry Page said that you are the most discerning investor in Silicon Valley and have the deepest understanding of the network high-tech industry." Sergey Brin looked at him in surprise.
Taking one look at my friend, I couldn't help shouting: "Hey, buddy, please say something."
Larry Page scratched his hair with his hands and said with some difficulty, "I think the boss clearly understands the development direction of network technology. He knows what is most valuable?"
I'll go.
Wang Yaocheng was secretly frightened;
Sure enough, there is no such thing as success without reason. Larry Page is a piece of wood with amazing insight and has his own unique insights into the development of high-tech networks. On this point, the two of them coincide with each other.
"I heard that you'd better be optimistic about President Tianyuan's video YouTube website, rather than being optimistic about America Online, right?"
Faced with Wang Yaocheng's question, Larry Page nodded silently.
Sergey Brin helped explain: "Larry Page feels that the high-tech field of the Internet is a winner-take-all field. Although there are endless portals emerging, Yahoo.com firmly occupies the leading position of portals.
80% traffic, this situation is difficult to change.
As a pioneer, if the Yahoo website can't make mistakes, it will be difficult for portals including America Online to surpass it.
Because the first thing they face is to change the surfing habits of hundreds of millions of Internet users. This is simply a hellish level of difficulty. No matter how much money is invested, Larry Page is not optimistic that AOL can succeed.
As for the video YouTube website, it has occupied the first place among video websites due to its first-mover advantage. It provides video sharing with extremely rich content and has blazed its own unique development path.
We are both optimistic about this."
Wang Yaocheng was speechless. After a moment, he nodded and said, "People with strong self-confidence will firmly believe in their own judgment and will not be easily influenced by others. Time will prove your judgment, but I don't recommend that you spread it everywhere."
"We got it, boss."
Sergey Brin and Larry Page understand instantly.
The high-tech field of network is like a forest covered with a layer of fog, with infinite possibilities for moving forward.
You may stumble and fall into the abyss, you may reach a dead end, or you may find endless treasures. The most important thing here is to move in the right direction, which is of unparalleled value.
The boss recognized the judgment of the two people, which made Sergey Brin very excited. In the eyes of Silicon Valley high-tech entrepreneurs, the boss is an unparalleled king, and no one else can replace his lofty status.
After finishing the chat between the two entrepreneurs of Google, Wang Yaocheng returned to his office.
He felt a deep crisis.
With the development of high technology on the Internet, more and more people have seen the way forward. The role of golden fingers is getting smaller and smaller, leaving few opportunities for cheating.
When Google really develops, everyone will suddenly realize it.
It turns out that the high-tech field of the Internet requires a complete ecosystem, with e-commerce and sharing at its core, and everything revolves around unique content service providers.
Facebook in the social field, Amazon in the e-commerce field, the portal website America Online, Google in the search field, as well as the rich and colorful music, videos, movies, sports, media social networking and Weibo forums, etc., have built a complete online ecosystem.
Nowadays, it is generally recognized that the role of Internet technology is one-sided, and is more used in the field of information exchange to shorten the distance between time and space. This view is undoubtedly premature.